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Images of barricades and police presence on Shanghai's Wulumuqi street, a day after protests against zero-Covid policy. Protests have erupted in Shanghai as well as others major cities across the country, a rare outpouring of public anger against the state. IMAGES
People in Beijing's Chaoyang district -- the Chinese capital's most populous -- queue up to get coronavirus tests as the capital city enters its third day of mandatory testing. Under its zero-Covid policy, China has used lockdowns, mass testing and travel restrictions to stamp out infections. IMAGES
Images of police in PPE and a street in Shanghai as the city records a steep climb in Covid-19 cases Tuesday. Millions are enduring a second day of lockdown after authorities effectively split the country's biggest urban area in two, with residents of the city's eastern half confined to their homes for four days and subjected to mandatory testing. China reported 6,886 domestic Covid cases nationwide on Tuesday, with more than 4,400 of them detected in Shanghai, now the centre of the country's worst Covid-19 outbreak since the early days of the pandemic. IMAGES
Truckers are staying put in the Canadian capital for a 14th day of an unprecedented occupation that has shut down central Ottawa, as well as disrupted cross-border trade, in anger at Covid health rules. IMAGES
Trucks remain parked outside Parliament in Ottawa as protesters enter their 13th day of occupying Canada's capital -- more determined than ever to stay put until all Covid restrictions are lifted. In the capital, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau -- who a day earlier issued a stern warning the protests "had to stop" -- appeared to shift tone, saying he understood "how frustrated everyone is" and that "the time is coming when we will be able to relax." IMAGES
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