Lockdowns and travel restrictions are causing serious disruption again in China ahead of its twice-a-decade Congress party meeting, The Guardian reported, with most of the 22 million residents of Xinjiang banned from leaving the western province after 190 cases were reported on Wednesday and Thursday.
Xishuangbanna airport in Yunnan was also put into a snap lockdown after 26 cases were reported on Tuesday. “Clips posted online showed a crowd of frustrated passengers yelling at officials in hazmat suits carrying automatic weapons,” the report said, adding that 13 people in Xinjiang were said to have died from exposure to disinfectant, while people in Tibet had been deprived of food and work, sent to crowded quarantine facilities, and that distress had led to several suicides.
Read the full report: The Guardian
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