Protesters hurled debris and glass at police in the latest expression of anger at zero-Covid rules.
People in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou have clashed with police overnight in the latest protest against the country's strict Covid rules.
One Guangzhou resident told news agency AFP that he saw around 100 police officers converge on Houjiao village in Haizhu and arrest at least three men.The latest unrest follows a wave of protest in China over the weekend, triggered by a fire in a high-rise block in the western Xinjiang region that killed 10 people on Thursday. Many Chinese believe long-running Covid restrictions in the city contributed to the deaths, although the authorities deny this.
On Tuesday health officials were asked if there were any plans to relax Covid measures in light of the protests - one official said China would "fine tune and modify" measures to control the "negative impact to people's livelihoods and lives".China remains the only major economy with a strict zero-Covid policy, with local authorities clamping down on even small outbreaks with mass testing, quarantines and snap lockdowns.
Two doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine gives 90% protection against severe disease or death versus 70% with China's Sinovac.
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