Protests Erupt Across China Over Draconian Covid Restrictions
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Early in the pandemic, China's approach to controlling the spread of Covid was praised by its own citizens - even as Beijing tried to dismiss widely held suspicions that the pandemic started after a leak at a Wuhan laboratory. It marks a sharp turn in public opinion.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Nov 24 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - H aitian high school teacher Miguel Jacquet used to be able to provide for his family, but a dire humanitarian and economic crisis has seen him join the swelling ranks of the poor.
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"Our country´s workers, both in the public and in the private sectors, are battling against the high prices that are strangling households and citizens," ADEDY, a confederation of trade unions for civil servants, said in a statement.
The cash transfers have increasingly become a lifeline for millions of people, as the country spirals ever deeper into a political and economic crisis, with inflation in June reaching a 10-year high of 29%.
Meanwhile last night hundreds gathered to mourn the deaths of at least 10 people in an apartment fire last week in Urumqi in the Xinjiang region, where residents were sealed in their buildings to try to stop the spread of COVID.
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President Xi Jinping´s government faces mounting anger at its 'zero-COVID' policy that has shut down access to areas throughout China in an attempt to isolate every case at a time when other governments are easing controls and trying to live with the virus.
Footage posted online showed hundreds of demonstrators confronting riot police on the streets of Urumqi, where many of the four million residents have been barred from leaving their homes for as long as 100 days.
"I really feel ashamed every time I have to call my brother in New York to ask him for money," said Jacquet, who receives between $100 and $200 in remittances a month to support his household in the capital Port-au-Prince.
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The trigger for the current humanitarian crisis was the blockade of a key fuel terminal by armed gangs that began in September, cutting off supplies of gasoline and diesel, which in turn led to shortages of basic goods including clean water.
One of the lines is: 'Rise up, those who refuse to be slaves.' Other videos showed demonstrators in a plaza singing China's national anthem, seen as an attempt to protect themselves from accusations of being against the government.
Fear of getting caught in gang violence means she stays at home. estimates about 1.5 million people in Port-au-Prince live in areas controlled by armed gangs who impose curfews, block roads and inflict terror.
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