[Watch] Coronavirus Update: China Finds a Smart Alarm System to Track Down Self-Isolated Chinese Citizens Trying To Escape

Chinese citizens that are under self-isolation due to suspicion of Coronavirus are now strictly prohibited from going outside of their homes as a way to prevent the spread of the COVID-19. Citizens now put smart devices like electric door seals on their doors to alarm the local officials once a quarantined person goes out of their houses. Is this necessary?

Alarm system now installed on Chinese houses to prevent people from going out

China is the epicenter of the viral disease Novel Coronavirus or COVID-19. The country has now recorded more than 2,000 deaths due to the widespread virus-- making them the highest country that has the most confirmed cases of Coronavirus.

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Unfortunately, this rate seemed to be continuously rising over time. This now forces Chinese citizens to make a huge action to stay inside their houses, especially those people that are under self-isolation as ruled by the Chinese government.

Reported via Daily Mail UK, Chinese people are now starting to go back to their normal lives by attending school and going back to their workplaces. This made the Chinese government worry about those people under Coronavirus self-isolation wherein they might go out of their homes and interact with people.

Local officials and some communities from the country have now joined in one to stop this from happening. They have installed smart devices like electric door seals on the houses of the suspected COVID-19 carriers for local officials to know once they tried to go out of their quarantine.

The device will alarm and send alert to the local authorities once it detects an attempt to open the door. These electric door seals came with a 24/7 monitoring system as a way of more stringent quarantine protocols for those suspected Coronavirus victims.

In the video, residents from Ningbo, Zhejiang Province of Eastern China followed the health protocol and installed their own door seals on their houses. Aside from this region, residential areas in other cities, including Xingyang, Huizhou, and Zhengzhou, have also followed the same action.

Health offices now 'understaffed' in China

An officer was interviewed on the video that said that the electric door seals will help the local authorities on monitoring every potential Coronavirus victims since they are now all understaffed due to the disease.

" [This will] massively improve our proficiency because we are very understaffed," said a local official on Pear Video.

Local authorities are required by law to regularly check the suspected Coronavirus carriers while they are being quarantined. According to the report, they will receive live alerts and real-time locations on their phones whenever a person attempts to escape the quarantine room designed for the potential victims.

Globally, a total number of over 80,000 people are confirmed to have the viral disease, and less than 3,000 citizens already died with COVID-19.

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