Shanghai separates Covid-positive children from parents in virus fight

Workers in protective suits next to residents lining up for Covid-19 tests in Shanghai, China, on April 1, 2022. - Reuters

SHANGHAI, April 2 (Reuters): Esther Zhao thought she was doing the right thing when she brought her 2-1/2-year-old daughter to a Shanghai hospital with a fever on March 26.

Three days later, Zhao was begging health authorities not to separate them after she and the little girl both tested positive for COVID-19, saying her daughter was too young to be taken away to a quarantine centre for children.