Dozens arrested in China’s Xi’an town for resisting, complaining about lockdown

People line up outside a vaccination site after the city started offering booster shots of the vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) to vaccinated residents, in Beijing, China. Photo: Reuters

XI’AN: Police in the northern Chinese city of Xi’an in Shaanxi Province have arrested dozens of people for spreading “rumors” online after the authorities banned the city’s 13 million residents from posting negative reports from coronavirus lockdown.