Trending in China: Uproar After Anti-Covid System Seemingly Used to Stop People Taking Cash Out of Banks

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Reports that people who wanted to withdraw their cash from rural banks in Henan province had their movement curtailed by the country’s anti-Covid location-tracking software were met with outrage on China’s Twitter-like Weibo platform.

As of Tuesday afternoon, the hashtag #Henan red code #河南红码 went viral on Weibo, racking up over 100 million views and over 11,000 comments.