Protests over China’s COVID controls spread across country

President Xi Jinping’s government faces mounting anger at its 'zero-COVID' policy that has shut down access to areas throughout China

Shanghai starts coming back to life as COVID lockdown eases

Negative PCR tests for COVID taken within the previous 48 hours remain standard in Shanghai, Beijing for permission to enter public venues

Most of Beijing is not locked down, but the streets are much quieter than usual with many shops closed and people working from home

Queues snaked around malls and outside office complexes on Monday as people waited to be swabbed for samples by health workers

Shanghai has been almost entirely locked down since the start of the month, snarling supply chains, with many people confined to their homes