A recent video showed a health worker in the COVID-hit city bludgeoning a corgi dog to death
A Shanghai resident walks his dogs in an underground garage of a residential building. AFP
As China faces an unprecedented rise in COVID-19 cases, a number of videos have emerged from its capital city, Shanghai, showing healthcare workers torturing dogs and cats.
In one of the harshest lockdowns, China’s pursuit of “zero-Covid” means anyone who catches the virus is sent to central facilities, sometimes for weeks, leaving their pets at the mercy of local authorities.
Earlier this month, a video showed a health worker in Shanghai bludgeoning a corgi dog to death which caused uproar among netizens.
Why are the Chinese health workers torturing dogs?
In an attempt to curb the spread of COVID-19, the health care officials are taking away pet dogs who are showing COVID symptoms.
Pets of people who have been tested positive are getting collected in bags to be killed later, a Twitter user has claimed.