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Beijing, Sep 12 Residents under Covid lockdowns across China are complaining of shortages of food and essential items, the media reported on Monday.Tens of millions of people in at least 30 regions have been ordered to stay at home under partial or full lockdowns, says the BBC."It's been 15 days, we are out of flour, rice, eggs. From days ago, we run out of milk for kids," said one resident in western Xinjiang.Authorities are scrambling to contain local outbreaks ahead of the Communist Party of China's congress in October.China's zero-Covid policy requires strict lockdowns, even if just a handful of cases are reported.On Monday, China recorded 949 new Covid cases across the entire country, the BBC reported.The policy has prompted rare public dissent from citizens and has also been accused of stifling economic growth.In Xinjiang, a weeks-long lockdown in the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture near the border with Kazakhstan has seen desperate residents appeal for help on social media, BBC reported.One post showed a video of an Uyghur man overcome with emotion, saying his three children had not eaten for three days.In Yining city, the capital of Ili, a shared online document with over 300 urgent requests for food, medicine and sanitary pads was widely circulated."I'm out of money to buy supplies. My wife is pregnant and we have two kids. We are running out of gas. My wife needs a medical check," said another resident, BBC reported.The region has a mixed population of Han Chinese, Kazakh and Uyghur residents.Earlier this month a UN report accused China of "serious human rights violations" against Uyghurs and other mainly Muslim minorities in Xinjiang, the BBC reported.Rights groups say that more than a million Uyghurs had been detained against their will. Beijing says its network of camps are a tool to fight terrorism.In south-western Guizhou province, authorities locked down an area of the provincial capital Guiyang without warning, stranding 500,000 residents at home without any chance to prepare.Disclaimer: This post has been auto-published from an agency feed without any modifications to the text and has not been reviewed by an editor

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