All across the country, despite China’s vast surveillance network with its facial recognition systems and high-end cameras that is increasingly used to track its 1.4 billion people, the government has turned to familiar authoritarian techniques — like setting up dragnets and asking neighbours to inform on one another — as it tries to contain the outbreak.

from Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/china/china-desperate-to-stop-coronavirus-turns-neighbour-against-neighbour/articleshow/73940637.cms