Chinese cities ease Covid curbs in wake of protests

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Shanghai and Urumqi to reopen markets and restaurants and loosen public transport restrictions

A health worker taking a swab sample from a woman to test for Covid-19 in the Jing'an district of Shanghai last week.A health worker taking a swab sample from a woman to test for Covid-19 in the Jing'an district of Shanghai last week.First published on Sun 4 Dec 2022 12.24 GMT

There was no sign of any significant unrest this weekend, although police were out in force in the Liangmaqiao area of Beijing and in Shanghai around Wulumuqi Road, which is named after Urumqi. Protests took place at both sites a week ago.A deadly fire last month in Urumqi sparked protests in more than 20 cities, after claims on social media that victims had been unable to escape the blaze because their apartment building was locked down.

In Shanghai from Monday, a negative test will no longer be required to take public transport and visit parks, authorities announced on Sunday. Elsewhere, Nanning, the capital of the southern region of Guangxi, and Wuhan, the central city where the pandemic began in 2019, on Sunday cancelled a requirement for a negative test to take the subway.

Source: Financial Digest (financialdigest.net)

 

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Well China really has started to look like a tyrannical dictatorship like Victoria under Dictator Dan.

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