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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 COVID-19 outbreak in the city of Shanghai, China began on February 28, 2022, [1] and ended on August 7, 2022. [2] The outbreak was caused by the Omicron variant and became the most widespread in Shanghai since the pandemic began two years prior. [7] Authorities responded with mass COVID-19 testing and a strict lockdown of the city in an ...
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).
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In April 2022, while a lockdown in Shanghai was ongoing, Xi again hailed China's zero-COVID approach during a speech, saying it had withstood the test of the 2022 Winter Olympics. [ 135 ] On May 5, 2022, Xi addressed the politburo on the current Covid policy, declaring the policy effective and calling for further implementation. [ 136 ]
Shanghai authorities announced a city-wide lockdown split in two stages for mass testing on 27 March 2022, after the city reached its highest recorded daily new cases due to the Omicron variant. [15] [16] Starting on 28 March, residents living east of the Huangpu River would go into lockdown for four days, and the other half for the remaining four.
On 13 July, Huaiyuan of Anhui and Lanzhou of Gansu were reported to have shifted into full lockdown. On 14 July, China reported an increase in cases tally as a new cluster emerged around Beihai, Guangxi. [181] On 17 July, lockdown was imposed in Beihai and the tourist island of Weizhou, trapping more than 2,000 holidaymakers. [182]
By August 2021, China had donated 700 million vaccine doses abroad, an amount more than all other countries had combined. [18]: 199 In 2022, infection rates increased, and on 3 April 2022, China reported 13,146 new cases of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, which was the highest single-day total of new cases since the height of the 2020 outbreak.