Are there historical examples of countries using pandemics as an excuse for banning protests?

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Zimbabwe did so in 2018.

More generally, public health and sanitation is one of the concerns regularly raised against protest camps, e.g. in this case in the US in 1932:

As summer temperatures rose and sanitary conditions in the camps deteriorated, pressure to end the protest mounted.

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