Protests Break Out in Chongqing After Residents Learn COVID-19 Testing Staff Were Infected

Protests Break Out in Chongqing After Residents Learn COVID-19 Testing Staff Were Infected
On Aug. 27, residents of Lianfang Subdistrict, Shapingba District, Chongqing City, protest against a ten-day long lockdown. Chongqing militia queued up in confrontation of the protesters. Screenshot via the Chinese language edition of The Epoch Times
Sophia Lam
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Protests broke out in at least two subdistricts in China’s southwest megacity Chongqing on Nov. 25 and Nov. 26.

China has recently seen massive protests across the country against the Chinese communist regime’s zero-COVID measures, triggered by growing angst from the prolonged lockdowns and further fueled by horrific deaths of at least 10 people, according to official reports, in an apartment fire in Xinjiang’s capital city of Urumqi in north-western China on Nov. 25. First responders were unable to reach those in the fire that burnt for around three hours due to COVID-19 blockades, with witnesses saying that residents were trapped in their building by locks throughout the residential compound.