you bet i have. (kathryn) we have worked with so many amazing causes and made a difference. (vo) by the end of this year, subaru and our retailers will have donated over two hundred and fifty million dollars to charity. (brent) it s about more than just selling cars. (phil) the subaru share the love event going on now. china is changing the way it manages covid-19 after extraordinary public backlash. the government is officially abandoning its zero infection policy. yeah. this is a big aboutface from china. the restrictions reaching from travel bans, economic turmoil,
there have been reports of kind of poor accommodations, poor food, poor sanitary conditions. they can now do home quarantine, and another big change is the lifting of restrictions on travel between regions and provinces. so i spoke with a friend in shanghai and told her about this for the first time and she said, this is wonderful. i can go travel to see my parents who i haven t seen in another province in months now. there is a flip side to some of this excitement, and that is that the chinese government has been warning about the fears, the dangers of covid for years now, and now suddenly the narrative is changing, and it s saying, hey. this new variant is milder. you can live wit. there are still prominent fears within the population. there is a run on over-the-counter medicines for fever and respiratory illnesses, for example, at pharmacies, but there are some real threats as well. epidemiologists are warning that
test and then back in. reporter: stores and restaurants that have had one case pass through are treated like a crime scene, roped off and disinfected. since confirming its first omicron case in mid-december, mainland china s average daily case count has surged from double-digits to more than 5,000. there are more than 65,000 active cases and counting. the virus has spread to 29 provinces and regions. the lockdowns and mass testing bring life to a near halt in many place, and could have global economic impacts. chi china locked down. silicon shenzhen is only just reopening after putting 17 million residents under lockdown for a week. back in shanghai, this latest lockdown is forcing tesla s gigafactory to hit the brakes on production, and it s already caused shanghai disneyland to shut its gates. this bustling metropoulos