Sky's Helen-Ann Smith reports from Shanghai, the morning after angry people took to the streets in China to express their frustrations with ongoing coronavirus measures.
When we woke up this morning, in the wake of those big protests we sawAt the crossroads we went in as a team, it was almost impossible to lift up a phone or a camera without police being immediately on us.There were a lot of barricades along those key roads and it felt extremely tense.
It's still tense at the crossroads; it's certainly not safe to broadcast live from there and there's still a heavy police presence.Revolutionary Les Mis anthem 'Do You Hear The People Sing?' could be heard playing in China as protests continue But, interestingly, there is a sense that there is a slight sigh of relief from authorities, because it seems there have not been mass big groups of people gathering like many thought there would be.
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