Over the weekend, protesters took to the streets to call for an end to the “covid zero” policy.
The Chinese government strengthened security in the cities of Beijing and Shanghai this Monday (28.Nov.2022) after protests were recorded over the weekend against the policy. “covid zero” adopted by the government to contain cases of the disease in the country. The information is from the news agency Reuters🇧🇷
In the country’s most populous cities, police officers patrolled the sites of protests held over the weekend. There was no record of new demonstrations this Monday (28.nov).
In Shanghai, around 300 demonstrators took to the streets last Saturday (26.Nov) to ask for an end to lockdowns and mass testing, in addition to the departure of Chinese President Xi Jinping. Protests against health restrictions were also held in Beijing, Nanjing, Chengdu, Chongquing, Urumqi and Korla.
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Protesters attributed the deaths from a fire in the city of Urumqi, in the Xinjiang region, on Thursday (24.nov) to the policy of “covid zero”🇧🇷 According to protesters, the sanitary controls adopted by the Chinese government made it difficult to rescue the victims. China denies the allegations.
The Chinese government has taken stricter measures to contain the coronavirus, confining neighborhoods and even entire cities to prevent transmission of the virus. The policy aims to zero cases. In the last 24 hours, the country recorded a new consecutive record with 40,052 new cases and no deaths from covid, according to the Chinese state agency. Xinhua🇧🇷
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Demonstrations were also recorded in Zhengzhou, where Apple’s main factory in China, operated by Foxconn Technology, is located. Workers protested against the working conditions imposed by the factory during the outbreak of the disease.
Employees have been kept in barracks to avoid impacts on factory productivity and a larger outbreak of the disease.
After the demonstration, China put Zhengzhou in lockdown last thursday (24.nov). The confinement is expected to last at least 5 days while the government conducts mass tests to identify outbreaks.
On November 6, Apple said that health restrictions in the region would cause consumers to have a “longest wait” To receive the iPhone 14, the latest model launched by the company.
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