Find here all of our live #CHINA
09:59 : Or lives lost in a bus transporting people to quarantine facilities?”
09:59 : “Imagine who can accept not being allowed to leave the house for four months, with no food, no medicine for the chronically ill, and a woman in labor hemorrhaging in front of the hospital because she has no PCR test result?
10:00 a.m. : “Imagine who can accept not being allowed to leave their home for four months, without food, without medicine for people who suffer from chronic illnesses, and a woman who gives birth and hemorrhages outside the hospital because she has no not the result of his PCR test? Or people dying on a bus that takes them to quarantine ?“
On Twitter, a Taiwan-based DW and Guardian correspondent gives voice to people protesting in Shanghai against government restrictions and its “Zero Covid” policy.
10:01 a.m. : They held up sheets of white paper to protest against censorship. In Shanghai, hundreds of people demonstrated in the afternoon against the Chinese government’s “zero Covid” policy, before being dispersed by the police, a witness told AFP. Another demonstration had already broken out at dawn, in the same city.
09:18 : “What I feel is that for a few hours, I am free, for once, I can say what I want to say”. Hearing this, her friend bursts into tears. “It’s the first time I’ve seen this in China”, she justifies https://t.co/YTLqDNsNSn
09:17 : Demonstration in support of Urumqi in Shanghai, and against health policy. “We want freedom, democracy, freedom of expression of the press” ask the young people gathered (I let the Sinics appreciate this last slogan). I’ve never seen this in China https://t.co/nTSxRre1NP
09:41 : On Twitter, the correspondent in China of the World, of Radio France and RFI, gives the floor to young demonstrators. They express their emotion at this unprecedented mobilization in a country where demonstrations are repressed.
09:13 : Several hundred students from the prestigious Tsinghua University in Beijing demonstrated against the government’s policy to fight against Covid-19. The protest followed another rally overnight at another campus at Peking University, as well as in Shanghai and other cities across the country. (AFPTV)
09:08 : Here is our first update on the news:
Anger is mounting in China against the draconian “zero Covid” policy practiced by the government for almost three years. Protests erupted this morning in several cities across the country, including Shanghai, where demonstrators called for the resignation of President Xi Jinping.
Three buildings, or 17 inhabitants in total, were evacuated overnight, in Lille, due to a risk of collapse, reports France Bleu Nord. Evacuations are increasing, two weeks after the collapse of buildings which left one dead on rue Pierre-Mauroy.
• Winner of Denmark (2-1), France is the first country to qualify for the round of 16. Kylian Mbappé offered himself a decisive double (61st, 86th), crucial for the Blues. “The first objective has been achieved“said Didier Deschamps. Lionel Messi has paved the way to victory for Argentina against Mexico (2-0). Lionel Scaloni’s men will have to win against Poland to avoid accounts of apothecary.
A woman has been found dead and a dozen people are still missing, after a landslide caused by heavy rains on the Italian island of Ischia, off Naples.