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Coronavirus Human Right Abuses,Is it okay to quarantined people against their will?

Is human Rights are Abuses in Corona virus,is it okay to quarantined people against their will?

Let Know Some Fact--

In Short --
*First reported in Wuhan, China, IN December 2019.
*11 March 2020; The WHO declared the outbreak a pandemic.
*128,000 cases have been confirmed in more than 120 countries and territories, with major outbreaks in mainland China, Italy,South Korea and Iran.



Response to the Virus by the Authorities 

*Travel restrictions, quarantines, curfews, event, cancellations, and school closures.
* Schools have closed nationwide in 22 countries
*Quarantine of all of Italy and the Chines province of Hubei.


How did Human Rights get violated?

 *About 60 millions people have been in forced quarantine in the central province of Hubei for nearly two months.

* Transport links were cut, and the 56 millions resident of Hubei were effectively sealed off from outside world.

*They were ordered to wear masks, stay indoors and report their body temperatures every day.


Early censorship

*The Chinese government has engaged in wide -ranging efforts to suppress information about the Cononavirus.

*In late December 2019, doctors in Wuhan shared with colleagues their fears about patients with symptoms similar to the reverse acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak that began in southern China in 2002.

*Reaction of Government: They were immediately silenced and punished by the local authorities for "spreading rumors".


The right to health 
*Local media reported that people are unable to quickly get to hospitals because of a public transportation shutdown and, in some cases, unable to remove bodies of the deceased from their homes.

*The right to health,as grunted under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, provides for the right to access healthcare.

Activists harassed and intimidated

*People attempting to share information about the corona-virus on social media have also been targeted by the Chinese government.

Discrimination and xenophobia

*People from Wuhan- even those without symptoms - have been rejected from hotels.
*Some restaurants in South Korea, Japan and Viet Nam have refused to accept Chines customers.

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