Violence erupts in China as people try to leave coronavirus-stricken Hubei province.
NATHAN VANDERKLIPPEASIA CORRESPONDENT
BEIJING
PUBLISHED MARCH 27, 2020
UPDATED 15 HOURS AGO
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Videos posted to social media appear to show violent clashes on a bridge between China’s virus-stricken Hubei province and neighbouring Jiangxi province. Hubei this week lifted its lockdown of areas of the province outside Wuhan.
Violent clashes erupted on a bridge between China’s virus-stricken Hubei province and neighbouring Jiangxi province, days after authorities relaxed an epidemic lockdown.
Police vehicles were overturned and police scuffled with each other amid large crowds of shouting people, according to a series of videos posted to Chinese social media. The confrontation came after authorities in Jiangxi blocked entry to people from Hubei, local media reported.
Hubei this week lifted its lockdown of areas of the province outside Wuhan.
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But deep distrust has taken root across China toward people from Hubei, fuelled by fear of COVID-19, which spread widely in the province, as well as skepticism of official reassurances that the epidemic has been successfully suppressed. People from Hubei have been refused entry to hotels and their homes, even if they were not in Hubei during the past two months. On social media, people have reported being barred from entering Beijing merely because their hometown is in Hubei.
Now, the release of lockdown measures means large numbers of people from Hubei are attempting to move elsewhere in China, threatening new hostilities.
On Friday, videos of the bridge confrontation showed a line of uniformed officers behind riot shields positioned across the bridge, blocking movement from Hubei province across the Yangtze River into Jiujiang, a city in Jiangxi. A large crowd marched toward the blockade chanting “Let’s go, Hubei!” In another video, Ma Yangzhou, the secretary of the party committee in Huangmei County on the Hubei side, urges people to disperse. “It’s dangerous for you to gather like this on the bridge,” he said, citing both the block to transportation and “the risk of virus infection.”
The clashes took place between 3 p.m. and 6 p.m., a worker at a toll booth on the bridge told the Globe and Mail in an interview Friday evening. “It was on the middle of the bridge somewhere that the block was put in place,“ said Ms. Huang, the worker. The Globe is not identifying her by her full name because she is not authorized to speak to foreign media. On Friday evening, digital mapping apps showed the bridge closed from both sides, citing “construction.”
In a brief commentary published on its Twitter-like Weibo account, the state-owned People’s Daily called the bridge conflict “regrettable.”
“The people of Hubei have made great efforts and significant contributions to winning the battle against the epidemic,” the commentary said. “People from all sectors of society have also been calling for the acceptance of Hubei’s migrant workers. However, it’s undeniable that some individuals of some regions have intentionally or unintentionally discriminated against Hubei people, set up obstacles for them to return to work” and discriminated against them.
According to official government policy, those who live outside Wuhan and are considered healthy have been allowed to resume travels since Wednesday. Authorities reopened railways and long-distance bus service, and pledged to completely remove all highway roadblocks by Friday. The desire to leave Hubei is substantial: Qichun County in the city of Huanggang counts one million residents, but has said 216,000 need to leave for work.
Sumber : https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-violence-erupts-in-china-as-people-try-to-leave-coronavirus-stricken/
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Author|Post time 28-3-2020 03:54 PMFrom the mobile phone|Show all posts
TravellingBear replied at 28-3-2020 03:52 PM
Waaaa tkde social distance. Ni akan dtg ada tsunami wabak tak ni
Polis mereka sendiri pun dah tak percaya kerajaan. Takde percaya hubei dah hubei bebas covid. Semua dah kelam kabut sampai kereta polis pun kena terbalik. Social distance pun dah lupa.
Post time 28-3-2020 03:57 PMFrom the mobile phone|Show all posts
bila tgk berita ni.. si I am PH xkan pulang kene negara asal dia tu... malaun tuh asek bukak thread kebencian pd govt... namun tetap juga mau tinggal di tanah melayu... no more ph no more dapig
Author|Post time 28-3-2020 04:00 PMFrom the mobile phone|Show all posts
bintangct replied at 28-3-2020 03:55 PM
diaorg nak lari ke tmpt lain sb xde covid sgt ke?
Diorang nak masuk kerja. Tapi tak dibenarkan masuk di atas bridge tu. Diorang tutup dengan alasan under construction padehal takde pun.
Yang hometown hubei tapi duduk tempat lain pun dilarang masuk beijing.
Post time 28-3-2020 04:05 PMFrom the mobile phone|Show all posts
MissVixen replied at 28-3-2020 03:54 PM
Polis mereka sendiri pun dah tak percaya kerajaan. Takde percaya hubei dah hubei bebas covid. Semu ...
Macam tak logic kan Gov China kata Wuhan/ Hubei takde face to face infection melainkan import kes kat HK and other parts of China? Katanye kat Wuhan ada yang suspect tapi denied utk di test melainkan ada symtomps. And tiba2 China kes static 3240 death jer macam tak naik2. I tak percaya.
Post time 28-3-2020 04:07 PMFrom the mobile phone|Show all posts
MissVixen replied at 28-3-2020 03:54 PM
Polis mereka sendiri pun dah tak percaya kerajaan. Takde percaya hubei dah hubei bebas covid. Semu ...
Lepas tu dan dan tu jugak tutup hospital temporary sebab katanye banyak yang sembuh dan tak perlukan lagi Hospital. Macam nak tutup cepat2 supaya nampak everything is ok dan suruh semua negara ikut cara China handle kes Covid.
Post time 28-3-2020 03:25 PM
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