China: Protesters clash with police at a COVID test factory | VIDEOS

Workers clashed with police at a covid test factory in Chinaaccording to a video broadcast on social networks on Sunday, at a time when the Asian giant seeks to exit its strict zero-covid policy.

Images geolocated by AFP in an industrial area of ​​the city of chongqing (southwest) show a people throwing boxes at a group of uniformed men, revealing what they look like covid detection test kits.

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china-at #Chongqing city, #CCCPChinaworkers clashed with #CPC police after #ZYBio suddenly announced that it would lay off some 10K employees. #ChinaProtests #China #ChinaUprising #inflation pic.twitter.com/IgP1FxWN1k

— Chaudhary Parvez (@ChaudharyParvez) January 8, 2023

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In another sequence, a crowd can be seen in front of a line of police officers, at night. Warnings to “cease illegal activities” are heard on the loudspeakers.

#NewsAlert: Reports that Chinese workers from the city of #Chongqing, #Chinaare furious and are rioting with Chinese police, because their employer “zybio” has laid off 10,000 people without their last month of pay. pic.twitter.com/sgOZHLSEUK

— Sotiri Dimpinoudis (@sotiridi) January 7, 2023

The man who shared the video indicated in the message that many employees had not received their salaries.

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According to other publications, the pharmaceutical company zybiobased in chongqingwould have suddenly fired the workers who had been hired in recent weeks.

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For now, zybio, contacted by AFP, declined to comment. Neither did the local police service.

Police intervene in a protest at a factory in Chongqing, China, on January 7, 2023 (Reuters).

“All the demands of the workers are of an economic nature”, a man claiming to be a “Marxist-Leninist-Maoist” claimed in a video, insisting there was no political motive.

The AFP could not determine the precise moment when the videos were recorded but, according to witnesses on social networks, the clashes took place on the night of Saturday to Sunday.

Source: Elcomercio