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BEIJING/SHANGHAI : Residents of Beijing fretted on Friday (May 6) over dozens of new COVID - 19 cases reported daily and over the possibility of more restrictions on movements as China 's leaders threatened action against critics of their zero - COVID policy. Incurring a heavy economic cost and facing rare public criticism on its tightly controlled Internet, China is increasingly out of step with the rest of the world where COVID - 19 restrictions are being abandoned and vaccines relied on to protect people . Internationally, industry organisations have complained that China 's COVID - 19 curbs have global...