Shanghai lockdown: residents in fear of false-positive Covid-19 tests after couple who tested negative hauled off to quarantine
- An audio recording of a police officer confronting a couple who tested negative for coronavirus and dragging them off leaves Shanghai in fear
- The city is in its second week of a full lockdown amid a series of official blunders, with people unable to access medicines, food and water
The couple’s latest nucleic acid test results on the government’s official platform were negative, however, they were forcibly taken to a temporary hospital after a police officer arrived at their door and declared they had tested positive without providing any proof, according to a 19-minute audio clip that’s been widely circulated online since Sunday.
Their daughter also was told she had tested positive and taken away, which was later found to be a mistake by the testing organisation, according to the recording.
The couple’s request to undergo another test to confirm the result of their tests was refused.
“You are [positive] if I say so,” they were told by the police officer in the recording of the conversation that has shocked China after it emerged online.
