Residents of areas across China, where quarantine has been imposed due to covid, are complaining of a shortage of food and basic necessities.
Tens of millions of people in at least 30 regions of China have been forced to stay at home.
"It's been 15 days, we've run out of flour, rice, eggs," says one of the residents of the western part of Xinjiang province.
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Authorities are making efforts to contain local outbreaks ahead of the Communist Party Congress, which takes place in October.
The policy of zero tolerance towards covid has imposed strict measures, which include the introduction of quarantine even if there are only a few cases.
Across China, 949 new cases of covid were registered on Monday.
This policy caused one of the rare reactions of dissatisfied residents who, among other things, accuse the government of stifling economic growth.
In Xinjiang, a weeks-long lockdown in Kazakhstan's autonomous prefecture, near the border with the country, has desperate residents taking to social media to plead for help.
One of the videos shows a member of the Uyghur minority, who is overwhelmed with emotions and explains that his three children have not eaten for three days.
Among residents of Jining, the prefecture's capital, social media users shared a joint online document with more than 300 urgent appeals for the delivery of food, medicine and sanitary pads.
"I have no more money to buy, and my wife is pregnant and we have two children. We're running out of gas, and my wife needs a medical check-up," said one of the residents.
The prefecture is inhabited by a mixed population, consisting of Han Chinese, Kazakhs and Uighurs.
Earlier this month, the United Nations in the long-awaited report accused China of "serious human rights violations" of Uyghurs and other, mostly Muslim, minorities in Xinjiang.
Human rights activists say more than a million Uighurs have been taken to camps against their will.
Beijing claims that the network of camps is part of the fight against terrorism.
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In the southwestern province of Guizhou, authorities quarantined the capital without warning, leaving 500.000 residents with no chance to prepare to stay at home.
The elevators in the buildings were turned off to prevent people from leaving, he reports The Guardian.
"We cannot order online because there is no delivery and supermarkets are closed.
"Does the government treat us like animals or do they just want us to die?" asked one user on the microblogging platform Weibo, according to The Guardian.
Meanwhile, Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province, has become the largest city under quarantine since Shanghai fell under similar measures earlier this year.
At that time, 21 million inhabitants faced a ban on entering or leaving the city, and only city residents could shop, if they had a negative covid test.
The quarantine in Chengdu was imposed after a heat wave in the region and a recent earthquake, when residents trying to escape prevented locked exits.
City officials announce the lifting of covid restrictions in five city boroughs starting Monday.
The multiple lockdowns come ahead of the Communist Party's national congress in mid-October - a once-in-five-year event that will bring together top political officials for the first time since the outbreak of the pandemic.
Organizers are under enormous pressure to ensure the event runs smoothly, and even a small number of covid cases are considered a threat.
Chinese media reported on Monday that a small number of cases had been detected on university campuses in Beijing, as students from various provinces returned to their classrooms.
China is the only world economy trying to completely suppress covid, arguing that it is necessary to prevent larger waves of the corona virus, which could put hospitals at risk of collapse.
China has officially recorded fewer than 15.000 deaths since the start of the pandemic, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
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