China covid protests: authorities call for crackdown on ‘hostile forces’

Streets flooded with police as top security body blames infiltration and sabotage' for unrest

• China's zero-Covid policy explained in 30 seconds

China has sent university students home and flooded streets with police in an attempt to disperse the most widespread anti-government protests in decades, as the country's top security body called for a crackdown on hostile forces".

In an apparent effort to tackle anger at the zero-Covid policies that originally sparked the protests, authorities also announced plans to step up vaccination of older people.