Over 31,000.
This is the number of positive Covid-19 cases that the Chinese authorities listed on Wednesday, November 23 - of which more than 27,000 were asymptomatic, according to the national health office.
China, which currently has more than 2.1 billion people, is the only major economy in the world still trying to stem the spread of the virus in the country by locking down entire cities and imposing strict quarantines. to contact cases.
These draconian policies which penalize the Chinese economic sector and degrade living conditions are today far from being unanimous among the population.
“We are tortured by a small cold”
The discontent was even openly expressed in the city of Chongqing, in the south-west of the country, Thursday, November 24.
Supported by his neighbours, a resident rebelled and denounced the restriction measures in the street, without a mask in front of several dozen people.
"
We are tortured by a little cold
," he said.
“
If I catch this disease, I guarantee recovery in seven days.
Messi had the Covid, Ronaldo had the Covid, tennis player Djokovic had the Covid twice and he won Grand Slam tournaments.
And if the impact of the Covid had been significant, they would have been retired a long time ago.
»
The protester also called epidemic prevention workers "
dogs
", before attacking the high price of carrots by highlighting the responsibility of the government.
And to hammer, pointing the cameras of his interlocutors who film him, that “
there is only one disease in the world, it is the lack of freedom and poverty.
We have them all now
”.
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The police quickly intervened to end his speech.
The forceful intervention of the police was however disputed by the witnesses of the scene.
“
He's a hero!
they shouted, referring to his Superman backpack.
The tension rose and the police finally decided to release the protester, under public pressure.
The video made the rounds on Chinese social networks, before being censored by the authorities.
Violent protests in Zhengzhou
These spontaneous anger movements echo the violent protests currently taking place in Zhengzhou.
Chinese authorities on Friday (November 25th) ordered the confinement of several neighborhoods in this central Chinese city, which hosts the largest iPhone factory in the world, due to a new outbreak of Covid-19.
Only a small number of cases had however been identified in this city of 12.6 million inhabitants.
This strict confinement follows violent clashes between employees and the police: the former blame the government for wages that are too low and denounce the severity of health policies.
The discontent is such that protesters have set up barricades around residential buildings considered high risk by health authorities.
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