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People in Wuhan rush to buy vegetables. On 23 January 2020, the central government of China imposed a lockdown in Wuhan and other cities in Hubei in an effort to quarantine the center of an outbreak of COVID-19; this action was commonly referred to as the Wuhan lockdown (Chinese: 武汉封城; pinyin: Wǔhàn fēng chéng).
On 7 December 2022, after the protests, the Chinese government lifted many of the most stringent rules, reducing lockdowns and allowing people testing positive for COVID-19 to quarantine at home rather instead of being detained in a hospital or mass quarantine site; [70] [71] [72] these changes effectively led to the end of the zero-COVID policy.
The COVID-19 pandemic in China is part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). China was the first country to experience an outbreak of the disease, the first to impose drastic measures in response (including lockdowns and face mask mandates), and ...
Tens of millions of people in China are in strict lockdown after a record number of reported cases on Tuesday. In pursuit of its zero-COVID policy, China has ordered residents of several cities ...
Since the coronavirus outbreak, life in China is ruled by a green symbol on a smartphone screen. Green is the "health code" that says a user is symptom-free and it’s required to board a subway ...
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 ...
China is coping with another major coronavirus outbreak in a different city. Earth’s most-populous nation has placed a lockdown on the city of Harbin over potential worry of another severe COVID ...
City Province Date quarantined Estimated population Source Wuhan: Hubei: 23 January 2020 11,081,000 [27] [28]Huanggang: Hubei: 23 January 2020 6,630,000 [27] [28]Ezhou