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Chinese universities send students home in an effort to prevent more protests

Blank white papers and flowers are laid down during a commemoration for victims of a recent Urumqi deadly fire in Central, a business district in Hong Kong, on Monday. (Zen Soo/AP)

BEIJING — Chinese universities are sending students home as the ruling Communist Party tightens anti-virus controls and tries to prevent more protests after crowds angered by its severe "zero COVID" restrictions called for President Xi Jinping to resign in the biggest show of public dissent in decades.

With police out in force, there was no word of protests Tuesday in Beijing, Shanghai or other major cities.

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