China ignoring player’s human rights, coach saysReuters, BEIJINGThe coach of the Finnish men’s ice hockey team yesterday accused China of not respecting a player’s human rights, saying that Marko Anttila was being kept in COVID-19 isolation for no reason. Finland head coach Jukka Jalonen made the remark shortly after Germany said it was satisfied with a swift improvement of isolation conditions for their three athletes who tested positive for COVID-19 and are in quarantine. When Anttila arrived in China he tested positive and was immediately taken to an isolation hotel. “We know that he’s fully healthy and ready to go and that’s why we think that China, for some reason, they won’t respect his human rights and that’s not a great situation,” Jalonen said. “These isolation decisions are not based on medicine or science, it’s more cultural and political decisions,” Voltonen said.

Source: Taipei Times February 06, 2022 22:01 UTC