{"id":17907,"date":"2022-11-27T09:39:34","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T09:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/11\/27\/zero-covid-anger-grows-after-deadly-china-fire\/"},"modified":"2022-11-27T09:39:34","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T09:39:34","slug":"zero-covid-anger-grows-after-deadly-china-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=17907","title":{"rendered":"Zero-Covid anger grows after deadly China fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Protests against Covid restrictions in China have intensified in the wake of a fire which killed 10 people in an apartment block in Urumqi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Thousands of people took to the streets of Shanghai to remember the victims and demonstrate against restrictions. Many were heard calling for President Xi Jinping to resign. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The lockdown of blocks of flats has been blamed for deaths in the fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">While Chinese authorities deny it was the cause, officials in Urumqi did issue an unusual apology late on Friday, and pledged to &#8220;restore order&#8221; by phasing out restrictions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Footage posted on social media also showed student at Nanjing Communications University holding a vigil for the victims.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-china-63770974?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Protests against Covid restrictions in China have intensified in the wake of a fire which killed 10 people in an apartment block in Urumqi. Thousands of people took to &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17908,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17907"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}