China bus crash prompts outcry over zero-Covid policy

By Associated Press

Sep 21, 2022 12:07 am

TAIPEI: A nighttime bus crash that killed 27 people in southwestern China this week has set off a storm of anger online over the harshness of the East Asian country's strict Covid-19 policy.

The initial police report did not say who the passengers were and where they were going, but it later emerged they were headed to a quarantine location outside their city of Guiyang, capital of Guizhou province.

A man wearing a face mask walks by a poster on next month’s 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party along a street in the capital Beijing on Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022. AP PHOTO

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