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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 ...
The COVID-19 pandemic in mainland 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 where the first COVID outbreak occurred, the first where authorities imposed drastic measures in response (including lockdowns and face mask mandates ...
Amidst China's largest outbreak since 2020 in March 2022, Xi said that China would continue to follow the zero-COVID strategy. [60] 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]
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).
Instagram reported a 70% surge in viewership of live videos from February to March when lockdown measures began. [29] Another study conducted in July, four months after the initial COVID-19 lockdowns, surveyed individuals on their primary reasons for using social media and other connectivity technologies.
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.
The lockdown resulted in the state recording zero active cases of COVID-19 in November 2020. [citation needed] Victoria entered its fourth lockdown on 28 May 2021 [26] [27] in response to an outbreak of the Delta variant. [28] Originally scheduled for seven days, the lockdown was extended to two weeks and lifted on 10 June. [29]