Residents’ support for the strict covid measures has weakened recently. Complaints about poor conditions come from several quarters, including food shortages and deficiencies in emergency medical care.
Several incidents where people have lost their lives when emergency services were allegedly delayed due to closures have been reported and widely circulated.
This weekend, despite the criticism, the country’s health authority promised to continue to stick to the zero-covid policy.
On Monday, more than 5,600 new covid cases were registered in China, almost half of them in Guangdong province in the south of the country.