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Police intervene at a protest at a factory, amid the coronavirus disease outbreak in Chongqing, China in this screen grab from a video released on January 7, 2023 PIX: Scores of workers have clashed with police at a Covid test kit factory in China, video spreading on social media showed Sunday, as the country navigates a path out of its hardline virus policy.
A man who posted video from the scene said in an accompanying caption that many workers had not been paid. “All the workers’ demands are economic in nature,“ said a man in one video who called himself a “Marxist-Leninist-Maoist”. He insisted there was no political motive behind the protest. The hashtag “Chongqing Dadukou Pharmaceutical Factory” appeared to be censored on the popular Weibo social media platform Sunday, with only one post from the previous day still visible describing the protest as an “interesting topic”.
Covid-19 infections have soared across China as the government moves away from its zero-tolerance approach to the virus, prompting a spike in demand for testing kits and drugs.
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