China: Exhausted by endless confinements, residents of Shenzhen protest
An employee tests a resident of a confined building in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, March 14, 2022. © cnsphoto, via Reuters
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Dozens of residents demonstrated in a district of Shenzhen following the confinement of their residence.
The megalopolis of 18 million residents in southern China has reported 10 new Omicron contaminations.
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With our correspondent in Beijing,
Stéphane Lagarde
"Freedom", "Remove containment", chant the residents on the images broadcast Monday, September 26 on social networks.
Opposite, police and health workers in blue and white protective suits, visors on their heads, block their progress.
Finally... A small place in Shenzhen is being locked down after detecting 1 positive case in #covid, but people protest pic.twitter.com/fVjD7Z9Xvd
— Samson Li (@SamsonLi7) September 26, 2022
The scene took place in a housing estate in the Shawei district of Shenzhen, where the metro station of the same name was closed until further notice.
Residents of 14 "high-risk areas" in three districts have been confined to their homes since midnight last night, AFP reports.
And in fifteen other districts considered to be at moderate risk, the inhabitants can only go down to the foot of their building.
Forced to present a negative Covid test for 24 hours to access the public place, residents take a dim view of the implementation of these new restrictions which cause zero-Covid fatigue to overflow.
The impression of living an endless day, while Shenzhen has experienced
several rounds of confinement
since the beginning of this year.
The largest electronics market in the world was even interrupted at the end of the summer
.
As I write this, "sensitive" content on Weibo related to what's happening in 沙尾 in Shenzhen is being actively censored (deleted) in real time.
Also from people's WeChat accounts.
Even the two pics I shared in the original tweet from this thread are now gone.
pic.twitter.com/I9BzuqiEpN
— Daniel Camilo (@DanielOlimac) September 26, 2022
Anger in the street and on social networks quickly censored, some disgruntled people refer to Iran.
In Beijing, as in all major cities in China, the authorities have their hands on the health measures button.
At the slightest case of contamination, everything closes
with the approach of the XX Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, next month
.
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