Bayer fires employee who was spotted breaking quarantine in China
Amid heightened sensitivities around social distancing and increasingly tough restrictions on people’s movement in desperate attempts to suppress the spread of Covid-19 around the world, Bayer’s China division said it has fired an employee after she broke quarantine rules in Beijing.
In under four months since it first reported cases of mysterious pneumonia to the WHO, China has swiftly rebranded itself as a safe haven, with imported cases now surpassing local transmission. So when a video emerged of a woman who appeared to be defying government orders regarding disease control, it went viral and drew universal condemnation.
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