Protesters in Beijing have reacted differently to the police crackdown. Now they don’t end the lockdown but sarcastically demanded that they want more corona testing and lockdown.
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On one hand the cases of corona are increasing rapidly in China and on the other hand people are on the streets against the restrictions. People are protesting against the strict restrictions. A day ago about 40 thousand in China Corona positive case had come And today 40,347 new cases have been registered. These record cases have come for the fifth consecutive day. Of these, 3,822 were symptomatic and 36,525 were asymptomatic.
People’s anger against Xi Jinping’s government is increasing in China. On the one hand, the increasing cases of corona and on the other hand due to zero covid policy, people are upset due to being forcibly kept in their homes. After Beijing, the capital of China, protests have intensified in many cities.
Action on media and protesters in China
Rana Mitter, director of the China Center at the University of Oxford, UK, said the country’s top leadership may not realize how unhappy people are with the ongoing Covid restrictions. How severely the Communist Party of China has restricted media and freedom of expression. Many videos are going viral on social media. In which the anger of the people is clearly visible. A day earlier, 10 people had died due to a fire here. People had alleged that the rescue could not take place due to the Covid restrictions, which led to these deaths.
should work on a different strategy
In an interview to BBC, he said that Corona may be an argument but the government has not realized how sad the people are. What is really the best way to get out of Corona? A separate vaccine strategy should be made and work should be done on it. He said that another issue facing China is that there is no clear endpoint at which the restrictions will be lifted and life will go back to normal. He said that one reason for the failure here is the policies here. They have vaccines that are okay but don’t really work very well. This means that the COVID policy here is not good.
Protest in Beijing, Shanghai
Protesters in Beijing have reacted differently to the police crackdown. Now they don’t end the lockdown but sarcastically demanded that they want more corona testing and lockdown. However, there is no sign that the Chinese government is ready to give up on its zero-covid strategy, says Yanzhong Huang, a Chinese health policy expert based at the US think tank The Council on Foreign Relations. There has already been some easing of Covid restrictions in Urumqi, where Friday’s protests took place. But Huang says that even if local governments decide to change the policy in response to protests elsewhere, they will still need to prevent a rapid surge in Covid cases across the country.
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