Translations on Chikungunya and Mosquito Eradication in Guangdong: “Hand Over Your Keys or We'll Pick the Locks!”

Translations on Chikungunya and Mosquito Eradication in Guangdong: “Hand Over Your Keys or We'll Pick the Locks!”

Public backlash has forced local officials in Pengyuan—a community in the city of Jiangmen, Guangdong province—to rescind an order requiring residents to surrender their keys so that sanitation workers can enter outbuildings to fumigate and eradicate mosquitos. The eradication effort is in response to an outbreak of the mosquito-borne Chikungunya virus, which has resulted in over 20,000 confirmed cases throughout Guangdong this year. The controv…