Disturbing videos emerge as 13 million remain in China’s lockdown

China is hellbent on achieving what no other country has: Covid-zero. Desperate to stamp out the mutating coronavirus ahead of the Winter Olympics in Beijing next month, the Chinese government has kept more than 13 million people in the northwestern city of Xi'an under strict lockdown conditions. Residents are confined to their home and are not permitted to leave to buy food or supplies, instead having to rely on patchy deliveries. Residents were reportedly removed from their homes at midnight and ushered into quarantine. Source: Weibo Reports circulating on Chinese social media site Weibo claim as many as 1000 people were removed from their home at midnight and led away into quarantine. Locals have taken to social media to complain about the drastic measures. While it is not known how many people were forced from their home, one account said they saw as many as 30 buses evicting the residents in the early hours of the morning. Residents were removed from the Mingde 8 Yingli housing compound on January 1, the BBC reported, because it was believed locals had mixed while getting tested for Covid. One person later complained about the quarantine conditions on Weibo. "There is nothing here, just basic necessities... Nobody has come to check up on us, what kind of quarantine is this? They did a big transfer of us, more than a thousand people, in the night and many of us are elderly people and children," they wrote, according to the BBC. Due to the harsh lockdown measures, "anti-epidemic" workers have been supplying food to residents. Staff members in protective suits conduct Covid tests at a residential area in Xi'an on January 2. Source: Getty Images Video showing long lines of workers in hazmat suits delivering bundles of food have been going viral on Chinese social media. But so too have more disturbing clips, Manya Koetse, a Chinese social media trend watcher and editor of What's on Weibo, says.