Protestors took to the streets in Shanghai, Beijing and other major cities demanding the reversal of China’s draconian zero Covid measures.
Thousands of people took to the streets in parts of Shanghai, Beijing and other cities in China on Sunday to protest the country’s harsh zero-Covid policy—which includes stringent lockdowns and repeated mass testing—a sign of growing public discontent over the anti-pandemic approach that has been embraced by China’s leader Xi Jinping and his administration....
[+]A candlelight vigil in Shanghai—China’s economic hub and its most populous city—began on Saturday night and grew into a protest as people shouted slogans demanding the lifting of lockdowns across China including in the city of Urumqi, ReutersA deadly fire in a building in Urumqi, the locked-down capital of the Xinjiang autonomous region, which led to the death of at least 10 people on Thursday has served as a trigger for the ongoing protest against China’s draconian anti-pandemic rules.
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