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Before you guys Start Complaining about Racism in China it's good to get the correct information as to what is really going on, on the ground. Let's not start this blame game, let's not propagate hate. Knowledge is important. @bonifacemwangi , @RobertAlai, Thread.
A couple of weeks ago, two Nigerian guys went to the hospital and were tested for COVID-19. They tested positive, they were quarantined. A few days into quarantine, they escaped and run away from the hospital. One of the them actually beat up a nurse and bite her fingernail /1
Following this incident the police launched a manhunt for the two Nigerians, First let's us remind ourselves that the two are positive to COVID-19, secondly they are criminals. As we all know, China takes this virus seriously, in order to control, manage and eradicate it /2
They follow a strict policy of Tracing, treating, isolation and testing. They realized that Majority of foreigners living in Guangzhou don't get tested and they don't observe quarantine. So the Provincial government decided to put every foreigner in Guangzhou under quarantine /3
What they did was to go to the Police Records, every foreigner living in China has to Register with the local police. You go to the Police Station in your area where you Register your details including your phone number. So the Police have a database of all foreigners living/4
When the Provincial government decided to test, isolate, trace and quarantine them, they went to the database held by Police. Then they started going round in the neighborhood looking for those foreigners residing in the estates. This is where the problem began /5
Majority of our Nigerian brothers as well as other African people don't have valid Visas, others don't have Valid passports. Most of them their Visas expired and are therefore living in China illegally. So when the Police started looking for these two Nigerians who ran away /6
The Police would request the landlord to produce the documents of their tenants. Because the Landlords know that its illegal to give a house to a foreigner without a Valid Visa, they hurriedly requesting those tenants who doesthe have documents to vacate their houses /7
Therefore all those African guys you are seeing them on videos claiming to have been evicted or racially profiled for being Africans is not true. The truth is they vacanted their houses after the landlords informed them that the Police will be coming round checking their /9
Documents. All of those who have legal documents to enter and live in China and they live in Guangzhou are now as we speak in quarantine. Whether you were sick or not. They were notified of the testing. They were all called and requested to present themselves at their local
Police station where they submitted samples for COVID-19 tests. They were then after two days all taken into a Hotel where they are now are undergoing testing, isolation, tracking and tracing of those who are infected with the virus./ 10
Those who have been taken into the Hotel are being catered for, they are getting breakfast, lunch and dinner courtesy of the Government of China. They are not paying even a single cent. Everyone is his or her room where they were told they will be for the next 14 days /11
