in China, the population’s dissatisfaction with a new confinement

More than 200,000 positive cases of Covid-19 were recorded in 24 hours in China on Tuesday April 5. The resumption of the epidemic has reactivated the strict health measures that we saw during the first wave. In Shanghai (China), 26 million inhabitants no longer have the right to leave their homes. They are 100 million to stay at home on Chinese territory. Those who test positive are admitted to quarantine centres.

A man who had the misfortune to escape from his home was violently punished. On a video, we see him being grabbed by two other men who decided to punish him by shaving his head, the latter having left his home. In another video, we can see a delivery man pinned to the ground. He too is not supposed to be outside his home during confinement. In the streets, only guards, policemen, officials and volunteers are admitted. Faced with these new measures, discontent is rumbling. Demonstrations are on the rise.