This is the sick moment a pet corgi is beaten to death by a health worker after its owner tested positive for Covid amid a strict lockdown in China.
The despicable incident has sparked fury online amid growing frustration over Beijing’s latest lockdowns.
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The video shows the man dressed in hazmat gear beating the innocent corgi with a shovel at a residential compound in Pudong district on Wednesday.
The grotesque moment was filmed by a resident of a nearby tower and shows the Covid-19 prevention officer chasing the dog down the street before punching it three times.
He then shows the dog lying inert on the sidewalk.
Footage shared online showed the corgi chasing a bus that was supposed to take its owner to an isolation center.
Another photo shows his body carried away in a plastic bag.
According to China News Weekly, the owner was in quarantine at the time of the attack but released the animal onto the streets after being unable to find someone to care for it.
“In the end I figured I could let (the corgi) run wild outside to be a stray, at least he wouldn’t starve to death,” the owner wrote in an online group, explaining that he had run out of dog food at home.
“I never thought that once we left, we would be beaten to death.”
A neighborhood committee refused to help care for the dog, fearing he might also be infected with Covid.
“At that time, the workers did not look into (the issue) very thoroughly. We will communicate with the owner and offer compensation later,” the committee told China News Weekly.
That didn’t stop Weibo users – China’s most popular social media network – from going wild.
“What is compensation for? It’s a life,” posted one user.
“Pets are part of the family too,” wrote another.
China’s National Health Commission said there was so far no evidence that people can catch Covid from pets.
It comes as people in China express frustration over Beijing’s handling of the latest round of tough lockdowns.
Clips shared online – which cannot be independently verified – appeared to show angry residents protesting at a quarantine facility.
They were seen yelling at men in hazmat suits to give them food while another video shows a man cursing at Chinese politicians for closing his store amid his city’s lockdown.
We see the man pointing at a woman in the street, saying: “Every day my business is closed but my employees need to eat. I have no money!”
“I have to pay my mortgage. In two days, my mortgage is due!
“I don’t care. Just let the Communist Party take me!”
It comes as Beijing is under intense pressure to abandon its zero Covid policy that has plunged major cities across the country into apocalyptic lockdowns.
Heartbreaking scenes from Shanghai show Covid-infected babies and toddlers screaming their heads from isolation beds in scenes that look like something out of a horror movie.
Unverified videos of babies and young children in state-run neighborhoods have been widely shared on Chinese social media platform Weibo.
Under China’s draconian Covid rules, anyone found positive – even if they are asymptomatic or with a mild infection – must be isolated from uninfected people.
The rules mean that children under the age of seven are snatched from terrified parents and placed in health centers to be watched by sinister staff.
While older children are locked in quarantine facilities away from loved ones to prevent them from spreading the virus.
Meanwhile, the streets of China’s largest city are completely deserted.
Shanghai remains in lockdown as authorities try to end the country’s worst virus outbreak since the first wave ended in early 2020.
The cruel policy has rocked the city of 25 million, causing mass panic, anxiety and outrage among horrified locals.
Despite the hard-to-watch scenes, Shanghai city health officials have defended the brutal separation policy despite growing frustration with the city’s zero Covid policies.
In a chilling statement on Monday, Wu Qianyu, an official with the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission, confirmed the heartbreaking policy.
She said: “If the child is under seven, these children will receive treatment at a public health centre.
“For older children or teenagers…we mainly isolate them in centralized (quarantine) places.”
She added that the policy was an integral part of virus “prevention and control work” and allowed parents who were also positive to self-isolate with their children.
But enraged parents and guardians have taken to social media to express their anger at the child abduction regime.
Diplomats from more than 30 countries have written to the Chinese Foreign Ministry demanding an immediate end to this brutal policy.
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