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Locked-down residents in China are protesting as patience wears thin against the country’s strict zero-Covid rules, in place again as omicron spreads.

A video posted online – already deleted by censors in China – showed people in a Shanghai housing compound chanting: “We want to work, we want to eat, we want the right to know, we want the local authorities to resolve the situation, we want freedom!”

Further north in Jilin province – hard-hit since omicron began mushrooming earlier this year – 160 workers that constructed a makeshift hospital say they have not been paid for their labour, and are demanding a state-run construction firm to fork over the promised wages.

The contractors built a 3,000-bed temporary hospital in five days, after which they were sent to quarantine in unsanitary conditions. Forty of them – a quarter of the workers – tested positive and were not given any care or food.

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