PHOTOS: China Coronavirus News - Protests against Xi Jinping flare over restrictions
China Coronavirus News, zero covid policy: On Sunday in Shanghai, police kept a heavy presence on Wulumuqi Road, which is named after Urumqi, and where a candlelight vigil the day before turned into protests.
China Coronavirus News, zero covid policy: Protests over Chinas stringent Covid restrictions continued for third day as hundreds of demonstrators and police clashed in Shanghai. The wave of civil disobedience is unprecedented in mainland China in the past decade, as frustration mounts over Xi`s signature zero-Covid policy nearly three years into the pandemic, the Guardian reported, an IANS report said.
Protests triggered by a deadly apartment fire in the far west of the country last week took place on Sunday in cities including Shanghai, Beijing, Chengdu, Wuhan and Guangzhou. In the early hours of Monday in Beijing, two groups of protesters totalling at least 1,000 people were gathered along the Chinese capital`s 3rd Ring Road near the Liangma River, refusing to disperse.
On Sunday in Shanghai, police kept a heavy presence on Wulumuqi Road, which is named after Urumqi, and where a candlelight vigil the day before turned into protests.
By Sunday evening, hundreds of people gathered in the area. Check Pictures
(with IANS inputs)
Protests against Xi Jinping government in China. Pic: IANS
Protesters hold up blank papers and chant slogans as they march in protest in Beijing, Sunday, November 27. Protesters angered by strict anti-virus measures called for China's powerful leader to resign, an unprecedented rebuke as authorities in at least eight cities. Pic: PTI
Protests against Chinese government`s strict Covid measures have intensified with people taking to the streets against President Xi Jinping`s harsh zero-Covid policy. Pic: IANS
Protests erupts in Xi Jinping's alma mater Tsinghua University on November 27. Pic: ANI
Protesters chant 'Step down CCP' in Shanghai against China's zero-Covid policy on November 27. Pic: ANI