China Intensifies Security After Rare Strike Against COVID Restrictions: Live Updates

China Covid Protests Updates

Police said Monday in Shanghai and Beijing after crowds demonstrated there and in other cities across China against draconian COVID-19 measures that have upended lives three years after the pandemic began. Patrolled the site of weekend protests. From the streets of several Chinese cities to dozens of university campuses, protesters have demonstrated a civil disobedience unprecedented since Chinese leader Xi Jinping took power a decade ago.

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There were no signs of new protests in Beijing or Shanghai on Monday, but dozens of police officers were in the areas where the weekend demonstrations were taking place. British broadcaster BBC claimed on Sunday that Chinese police attacked one of the journalists covering protests in Shanghai against the government's "zero Covid" strategy and detained him for several hours. China's foreign ministry, meanwhile, said it did not identify the reporter as a journalist.

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Protests against China's draconian Covid measures have spread to the country's biggest cities. About 1,000 people gathered in the capital Beijing early Monday morning to express their outrage over an apartment fire in the far-western city of Urumqi that killed 10 people late last week. Clashes broke out between hundreds of protesters and police in Shanghai on Sunday, with some even demanding the resignation of President Xi Jinping.

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