The protests are said to have taken place on Wednesday afternoon and stretched on till the night.
One video shows hundreds of people gathered on the streets, with officials blocking them at one end. A message calling for calm can be heard on a loudspeaker, with an official asking for people to “please be understanding and to go back”.
Another video shows scores of people on the streets at night, and a man can be heard commenting on the scene.
“[They] have been locked up for too long. And a lot of people in this community are people who have just come to work and earn money. If they could get that in mainland China, they wouldn’t have come here,” he says in Mandarin.
Yet another video showed people marching in the streets with the caption “We just want to go home”.
Some of the videos were taken in Lhasa in recent days. They have been removed from Chinese social media but reposted on Twitter.
Tibetan sources have told news outlet Radio Free Asia (RFA) that protesters warned they would “set off a fire” if restrictions were not lifted – though it is not clear what this meant.
Another source said there were fears that scuffles between civilians and police officers could turn violent.
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China’s Wuhan, where first covid outbreak was reported, under partial lockdown as new cases emerge. Shanghai, Beijing, Guangdong, Jiangsu, other chinese cities’ statistical data included here.
An example photograph of full or partial lockdown in a public area inside a shopping mall.
Wuhan locked down one of its central districts after Covid cases were found, as China persists with a zero-tolerance approach to the virus almost three years since the pathogen first emerged in the city.
The roughly 900,000 residents of Hanyang district were told to stay in their homes from Wednesday, a spokeswoman from the area’s CDC told Bloomberg News by phone. Another official at Hanyang’s health bureau said the lockdown would last until Sunday, and that all non-essential businesses had been told to shut. Supermarkets and pharmacies will remain operational.
Photos posted on Chinese social media appeared to show barriers erected in Hanyang, ostensibly to keep people from leaving as the movement restrictions are imposed. The district is known for its historical tourist attractions.
Wuhan recorded 18 Covid cases in the community for Tuesday. While a minuscule tally in other parts of the world, which have shifted to living with the virus, it’s a significant number in China, where authorities continue to try and wipe out outbreaks.
The Covid Zero policy — which has its origin in the early days of the pandemic in Wuhan — uses lockdowns, mass testing and restrictions on travel to contain the virus’s spread. But the approach, which President Xi Jinping has defended for saving lives, is leading to widespread social and economic disruption.
After eliminating the virus by April 2020, Wuhan saw a long period of no cases where life in the city that saw the world’s first Covid lockdown returned to normality. That spell ended in July this year, when officials locked down the Jiangxia district, an area that’s home to almost 1 million people on Wuhan’s outskirts.
October 27, 2022.
China recorded 231 new confirmed cases, of which 38 were imported (16 in Fujian, 5 in Shanghai, 5 in Guangdong, 3 in Beijing, 3 in Jiangsu, 2 in Sichuan, 1 in Tianjin, 1 in Inner Mongolia, 1 in Zhejiang, and 1 in Shandong) and 193 were locally transmitted (31 in Fujian, 30 in Inner Mongolia, 16 in Shanxi, 15 in Guangdong, and 1 in Hunan) 13 cases, 13 cases in Chongqing, 13 cases in Shaanxi, 12 cases in Beijing, 12 in Jiangsu, 11 in Xinjiang, 7 in Qinghai, 5 in Henan, 4 in Sichuan, 3 in Anhui, 3 in Shandong, 2 in Tibet, and 1 in Tianjin, 1 in Shanghai, 1 in Zhejiang). No new deaths were recorded.
There were 1,033 new asymptomatic infections, of which 104 were imported and 924 were locally transmitted (1117 in Qinghai, 114 in Xinjiang, 92 in Inner Mongolia, 84 in Guangdong, 78 in Fujian, 74 cases in Shandong, 57 in Hunan, 53 in Hubei, 33 in Shaanxi, 31 cases in Sichuan, 28 in Shanxi, 24 in Gansu, 22in Chongqing, 20 cases in Henan, 19 cases in Jiangsu, 10 cases in Heilongjiang and 10 in Yunnan, 9 in Anhui, 8 in Shanghai, 8 in Guangxi, 7 in Hebei, 6 in Tianjin, 6 in Tibet, 5 in Beijing, 4 in Ningxia, 3 in Zhejiang, and 2 in Jiangxi). There were 15,557 asymptomatic infections still under medical observation, of which 1,082 were imported.
As of 09:00, October 27, 2022, China recorded 2,392 high-risk areas (1 in Beijing, 14 in Tianjin, 43 in Hebei, 105 in Shanxi, 309 in Inner Mongolia, 2 in Jilin, 20 in Heilongjiang, 14 in Jiangsu, 1 in Anhui, 75 in Shandong, 17 in Henan, 233 in Hunan, 96 in Guangdong, 6 in Chongqing, 37 in Sichuan, 50 in Yunnan, 121 in Shaanxi, 6 in Gansu, 141 in Qinghai, and 32 in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region 1,069 in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region; 1,611 medium-risk areas: 1 in Beijing, 22 in Tianjin, 58 in Hebei, 68 in Shanxi, 318 in Inner Mongolia, 8 in Liaoning, 25 in Heilongjiang, and Shanghai 16, 51 in Jiangsu, 39 in Anhui, 18 in Fujian, 48 in Shandong, 39 in Henan, 156 in Hunan, 114 in Guangdong, 10 in Chongqing, 25 in Sichuan and Yunnan 58, 122 in Shaanxi, 18 in Gansu, 109 in Qinghai, 41 in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, and 247 in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region) and 1,614 medium-risk areas.
Cities in China tighten controls to combat rising COVID-19 outbreaks. In an effort to stop spreading outbreaks, Chinese cities from Wuhan (in the center of the country) to Xining (in the northwest) are stepping up COVID-19 restrictions, closing off buildings, and shutting down entire districts. As of October 27, 2022, the country reported more than 1,000 new cases nationwide for the third day in a row. Wuhan, where the very first COVID-19 outbreak occurred in late 2019, reported 20 to 25 new cases daily this week.
Local officials mandated that over 800,000 residents of one region remain at home until October 30. The authorities said that one of the COVID-19 cases was linked to the regional pork supply chain. Xining, the capital city of Qinghai, is also facing a resurgence of cases. As health officials in the 2.5 million-person city rushed to contain a COVID-19 comeback after the week-long National Day holiday in early October, social media posts warned of food shortages and price inflation for necessities.
Guangzhou district suspends in-person schooling and dine-in.
On October 24, 2022, 69 new cases were reported in Haizhu, a district in the heart of Guangzhou. To curb the new COVID-19 outbreak, the local government has implemented the following measures: kindergartens, primary and secondary school students will attend classes online; catering service units (including beverage shops, snack bars, breakfast shops, etc.) must suspend dine-in activities, and only provide take-outs and in-store pick ups.
