Doctors in Zhejiang province, which has a population of about 64.5 million people, are recording more than 1 million new cases of coronavirus infection per day, in shape Reuters. This number is expected to double in the coming days.
“The peak infection in Zhejiang is estimated to enter a period of high levels around the New Year, during which the daily number of new infections will reach 2 million,” the provincial government said in a statement.
Volunteers are being recruited in the provincial capital of Hangzhou to help the city’s emergency medical center deal with an increasing number of requests from citizens. The authorities are stepping up purchases of antipyretic drugs and distributing more than 10 million units of other medicines.
In late November 2022, mass protests were held in several cities across China. The demonstrations were triggered by tight anti-COVID restrictions and a fire in the city of Urumqi in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Residents of some areas are practically forbidden to leave their apartments, and on December 24, 10 people died in a fire in a residential building, the residents of which were under quarantine. In social networks, they began to actively discuss that people could not leave the burning building due to restrictions. In Shanghai, protesters began chanting anti-government slogans, including “Xi Jinping, get out!” and “Communist Party, get out.”
Through the protests, residents were able to get permission for some citizens to quarantine at home rather than in special camps, as well as the removal of the requirement to take a coronavirus test to enter most public places .
