Israel’s consul general in Shanghai, Edward Shapira, was held in a medical facility for COVID patients for 10 days after contracting the virus.
“The problem is that it caught me in the most wrong place on earth—in China,” Shapira said on his Facebook page on Dec. 3.
“Nothing prepares you for the experience,” he wrote, even though he had dealt with COVID-19-related issues for over 2 years.
‘Conditions Reminiscent of a Prison’
Shapira, who only suffered from mild symptoms, mentioned how he was still trying to recover from what he had gone through being held in “conditions reminiscent of a prison” during “the 10 most bizarre days imaginable” he wrote….