In downtown Shanghai, people gathered in the streets on Sunday night to protest against the country's zero-Covid policy. In China's biggest metropolis, police tried to move people away from the site of an earlier demonstration on Wulumuqi street, named after the Mandarin for Urumqi, the capital of northwestern Xinjiang region. A deadly fire there last week has become a catalyst for public anger.

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