A medical worker helps a patient with an intravenous drip at a community healthcare centre in Shanghai as Covid-19 rips through China. Photo: Xinhua via AP
A medical worker helps a patient with an intravenous drip at a community healthcare centre in Shanghai as Covid-19 rips through China. Photo: Xinhua via AP

China’s Twitter-like Weibo bans more than 1,000 accounts over Covid policy criticism

  • Temporary or permanent bans in place for 1,120 users over ‘personal attacks’ against health experts and ‘inciting conflict’, microblogging site says
  • Move comes days after Communist Party security bosses warn against using the pandemic to ‘disrupt social order’

A medical worker helps a patient with an intravenous drip at a community healthcare centre in Shanghai as Covid-19 rips through China. Photo: Xinhua via AP
A medical worker helps a patient with an intravenous drip at a community healthcare centre in Shanghai as Covid-19 rips through China. Photo: Xinhua via AP
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