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Added on the 07/01/2023 17:43:16 - Copyright : Euronews EN
Accredited BBC journalist Ed Lawrence was arrested at a Covid-19 lockdown protest in Shanghai and detained for several hours.
Fears of a hard Covid-19 lockdown sparked panic buying in Beijing on Monday, as long queues for compulsory mass testing formed in a large central district of the Chinese capital.
Beijing plans to test two million people in 48 hours as the city rushes to stop a new local cluster of COVID cases.
Students line up to get tested on the campus of New York University, a mandatory step to be able to go back to in person classes on September 2. A quarantine is also required.
Hundreds of Beijing residents queue outside COVID-19 screening venues to do an acid nucleic test as part of a mass testing campaign. China reported 19 new cases of the coronavirus on Tuesday, including seven more domestic cases in Beijing. China's capital has partially lifted a weeks-long lockdown imposed in parts of the city to head off a feared second wave of coronavirus infections.