Chinese television, when broadcasting the matches of the Soccer World Cupno longer shows viewers without a mask in his images, after this type of shot caused anger among citizens fed up with the restrictions against covid-19.
China is the last major world economy that continues to apply a tough strategy against the coronavirus, called “zero covid”, which implies confinements of entire neighborhoods and cities, periods of quarantine and massive tests. The Chinese increasingly accept these measures with a worse degree and in recent days several protests have been called against them.
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To prevent Chinese viewers from seeing stadium crowds without masks, the CCTV sports network systematically replaced, in the broadcast of the match Japan-Costa Ricathe images in which people appeared sitting too close together with shots of players or shots of the public taken far enough away so that the faces could not be distinguished, the AFP found.
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On the other hand, on the internet I could see the uncensored broadcast, even on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok.
Tens of millions of inhabitants of large cities such as Beijing, Guangzhou and Chongqing They were under some form of confinement this Sunday.
In recent days, it has been widely shared on the messaging network WeChat an open letter asking whether China is “on the same planet” as Qatar, questioning the Chinese government’s health policy.
A letter that, however, ended up being censored by the authorities. This Sunday, hundreds of people demonstrated, especially in Beijing and Shanghai, against the anti-covid policy, something unusual.
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AFP
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