Tag: lockdown

Tibetan Businessman Condemns Chinese Regime for Long Lockdowns

A business owner in Tibet who was infected with COVID-19 in September condemned the Chinese regime’s draconian zero-COVID policies as the “biggest hindrance to people’s livelihood” and demands relaxation of the lockdown measures. Xiao Qiang (pseudonym) is a resident of Lhasa, the seat of China’s western region of Tibet. He owns a motorcycle sports club…


Shanghai District Orders Mass COVID-19 Testing, Lockdown

BEIJING—China’s largest city of Shanghai is ordering mass testing Friday of all 1.3 million residents of its downtown Yangpu district and confining them to their homes at least until results are known. The demand is an echo of measures ordered over the summer that led to a two-month lockdown of the entire city of 25…


Chinese Father Successfully Fights to Get Life-Saving Treatment for His Quarantined Son

A Chinese man who was brave enough to confront quarantine facility guards saved his son’s life. In a video clip that went viral on Chinese social media, the 9-year-old’s father is seen demanding medical attention for his son outside of an isolation facility. Father and son were both locked down in the school—converted to a…


Almost 1 Million People in Chinese City Near iPhone Factory Under Lockdown

The city of Zhengzhou in China’s Henan Province has shut down one of its most populated districts and put almost a million residents under lockdown due to a flare-up of COVID-19. Residents were asked to remain at home beginning on Oct. 17. Non-essential businesses have been shut down. The only instances when people are allowed…


Parents Hold Xinjiang Hospital Responsible for Death of 6-Month-Old During Lockdown

The Chinese regime’s draconian zero-COVID policies have allegedly caused another baby’s death in China’s western Xinjiang region. The parents of a six-month-old boy accuse a hospital in Xinjiang of causing the death of the infant because its zero-COVID policies delayed access to medical treatment. Baby Zhang Lingrong and his mother Zhao Xiulian were locked in a…


Anger Boils as Shanghai Residents Enter Another Lockdown Amid Reports of COVID-19

Authorities in Shanghai are ramping up their zero-COVID efforts amid a recent flare-up in cases before the coming national congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in mid-October. The city that is the financial hub of China reported 34 active COVID-19 cases as of Oct. 9, three of which have symptoms and the rest being…


Chinese Police Reportedly Lock Down Tourists in Airport With Machine Guns Amid Snap Shut in Yunnan Province

Footage of Chinese police holding machine guns at the airport of Xishuangbanna (Banna) prefecture to stop tourists from boarding their planes has gone viral in China and overseas. Tourists were trapped in the airport after the local authorities of Banna suddenly locked down the city of Jinghong on Oct. 4. They chanted “We want to…


CCP Official Declares China Will Go to Extremes to Control COVID-19 Before Party Congress

A provincial-level official of the Chinese communist regime publicly says extreme measures in pandemic control will be used for the upcoming Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) 20th National Congress on Oct. 16. During China’s National Day (Oct. 1) week-long holiday, authorities in Inner Mongolia region, home to a Mongol ethnicity in Northern China, adjacent to Beijing,…


Five Suicides in Tibet Due to ‘Extreme Hardship‘ in Lockdown: Report

The “extreme hardships” in Tibet, where the Chinese regime has imposed harsh lockdowns, are behind five recent suicides, according to a human rights advocacy group. The lockdown in the west border region—which has dragged on for over 50 days—caused “a spate of suicides” in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, according to the Washington-based International Campaign…


People Locked Down in Xinjiang Unable to Visit Hometowns for China’s National Day Holiday

Many people in China’s Xinjiang region can’t leave to visit their hometowns during the week-long “October First” holiday– the regime’s “National day” under its restrictive zero-COVID-19 control measures. Meanwhile, protests broke out against the indefinite lockdowns. Most of Xinjiang, which is in China’s northwest and home to an ethnic Uyghur majority, has now been under COVID-19…