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Zero-COVID fatigue swells into public protests

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Emotions ran high across a dozen Chinese cities over the weekend, as public protests against strict COVID controls broke out on an unprecedented scale.

The trigger: An apartment block fire in Urumqi city – the capital of Xinjiang province – that killed 10 people on Thursday night (FT).

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