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On 8 February 2023, thousands of retirees in Wuhan gathered in front of the city government to protest the slashing of medical subsidies. [3]On 15 February 2023, protests erupted in both Wuhan and Dalian in response to new health insurance reforms related to ongoing struggles within China's healthcare system and cash-strapped localities struggling to recover from zero-COVID expenditures.
A series of protests against COVID-19 lockdowns began in mainland China in November 2022. [6] [4] [7] [8] [9] Colloquially referred to as the White Paper Protests (Chinese: 白纸抗议; pinyin: Bái zhǐ kàngyì) or the A4 Revolution (Chinese: 白纸革命; pinyin: Bái zhǐ gémìng), [10] [11] the demonstrations started in response to measures taken by the Chinese government to prevent the ...
A series of protests in mainland China against COVID-19 lockdowns began in November 2022. On 7 December 2022, China's National Health Commission in a 10-point announcement stipulated that negative COVID-19 tests would no longer be required, apart from vulnerable areas such as nurseries, elderly care facilities and schools. [13]
The first scientist to publish a sequence of the COVID-19 virus in China staged a sit-in protest outside his lab after authorities locked him out of the facility — a sign of the Beijing's ...
Protests simmered in Shanghai early on Sunday, as residents in several Chinese cities, many of them angered by a deadly fire in the country's far west, pushed back against heavy COVID-19 curbs ...
While the U.S. has recorded more than a million virus deaths, the official toll in China is 5,232, a number that could rise exponentially if the fragile health care system is overwhelmed with ...
v. t. e. During the COVID-19 pandemic in mainland China, the government of China under CCP general secretary Xi Jinping 's administration pursued a zero-COVID strategy to prevent the domestic spread of COVID-19 [1] until late 2022. [2] Aspects of the response have been controversial, with the zero-COVID approach being praised [3][4] and the ...
In a rare display of defiance, protests have erupted across China over the government’s so-called zero-COVID policy. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290 ...