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Explainer | What is it like to stay at one of China’s massive quarantine centres in the Greater Bay Area?
- Authorities in four southern Chinese cities have built health stations catering to thousands of travellers at any one time
- Food, conditions and prices vary, according to a range of sources
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Quarantining in China can be unpredictable – travellers often have no choice about where they stay so they could be spending three weeks or more in luxury or a cramped, windowless room.
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But the construction of several mass quarantine centres in Guangzhou, Zhuhai, Foshan and Dongguan has gone some way towards standardising the experience in those four Greater Bay Area port cities.
The centres are called “health stations” and were set up in suburban areas to minimise the risk of local spread of the coronavirus from imported Covid-19 cases. Each centre has thousands of rooms but travellers may still be assigned to designated hotels.
But what is it like staying at one of these health stations? Chinese media reports, social media accounts and the experience of one frequent traveller who recently stayed at the Zhuhai facility offer a glimpse.
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