China using fake Covid alerts to stop people staging protests


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A health worker waits to perform nucleic acid tests at a testing site after a recent Covid-19 outbreak in Beijing - Kevin Frayer/Getty Images China has been accused of sending false Covid infection alerts to protesters in order to ban them from demonstrations, raising fears that Beijing is using strict quarantine rules to control its population. After four banks in the central province of Henan blocked access to at least £147 million of deposits in April, thousands of clients started travelling to the provincial capital of Zhengzhou to attempt to withdraw their money and in some cases hold protests. But...