Chinese leadership appears to have put the restrictive 'Zero-Covid' approach on the back-burner for now, even though some cities have been witnessing high infection numbers.
Zamkar, Dechen, Kalsang, Dolma and Delha were arrested on Monday for participating in the protests in the region, according to Phayul. Chinese authorities have arrested peaceful protesters in universities and cities for demonstrations against the government, including the arrest of a young Tibetan woman named Tsewang Lhamo from Lhasa, Phayul reported citing various media reports. Lhamo is a student at the Nanjing Communication University in China.
Shanghai announced that no mass COVID testing will be conducted at the administrative region level except for employees in high-risk positions and high-risk areas.
According to CNN, several workers across China have taken down some of the outward symbols of the nation's zero-Covid regulations, removing health code scanning signs from metro station walls and closing some gates after the Chinese government announced removing curbs.
In the last week of November, hundreds of people in Shanghai, China’s biggest city and financial center, began publicly protesting against the government’s strict Covid-19 measures. Beijing: China on Wednesday announced nationwide loosening of coronavirus restrictions, allowing home quarantine for covid close contacts and scrapping covid test rule in most...
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This comes less than two weeks after largescale scale protests gripped the country against the zero covid policy. This announcement has brought relief to millions of people under various restrictions since the start of the pandemic.
Recently, on December 3, a few activists gathered in Tokyo to show support for and silently highlight the suffering of the Uyghur people of Xinjiang in China. The activists also paid homage to more than two dozen Uyghurs, who were killed in an apartment block fire in Xinjiang's capital Urumqi, according to several media reports.
Before escorting Jiang to the Babaoshan Revolutionary Cemetery for cremation, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Premier Li Keqiang, Li Zhanshu, Wang Yang, Li Qiang, Zhao Leji, Wang Huning, Han Zheng, Cai Qi, Ding Xuexiang, Li Xi, Wang Qishan, and others went to the Chinese PLA General Hospital to pay their final respects, Xinhua News Agency reported.