influx of visitors from china in the coming weeks. here s our medical editor fergus walsh. the sudden lifting of china s zero covid policy after nearly three years has allowed the virus to let rip across and under immunised population with little natural immunity. that has worried neighbouring countries including japan, south korea and india who have imposed covid checks on arrivals from china. the us has followed suit saying a lack of adequate and transparent data from china was a part of the decision to require a negative covid test. italy is the only european country to impose checks, including a post arrival pcr test which will allow genomic surveillance of potential new covid threats. the outbreak in china is being driven by several 0micron sub
new. things have slowed down a little bit, not a huge amount, a little bit, not a huge amount, a little bit, not a huge amount, a little bit, because the french are now stamping passports and they re having to do covid checks as well. so that s slowed it down a bit. it is just the amount of traffic, the lack of officers at dover yesterday, and friday, and just the amount of traffic. it is not unexpected. in which case why is it not pre empted before the queues build. this which case why is it not pre-empted before the queues build. before the queues build. this is something before the queues build. this is something that before the queues build. this is something that you before the queues build. this is something that you have - before the queues build. this is something that you have have l before the queues build. this is| something that you have have to before the queues build. this is - something that you have have to ask the carriers for, why they haven t got better infras
him when he heads to beijing. james griffith is our former colleague and he s also author of the book, the great firewall of china, which explains how beijing controls what chinese people can see on the internet. thanks so much for being with us, james. so we ve outlined in broad strokes the concerns here. take us through what worries you most about this app and the way it s being used. thanks, kim. it s great to be here. yeah, there s quite a lot of concern about this app just because of the amount of data that it requires people to fill in. this is, you know, designed as a centralized space that you put all of your various health data that you have to provide to clear covid checks, your passport book, your flights, things like that. and when you re gathering that amount of data, there s going to be a concern about how that s handled. and especially when we re talking about the chinese government, there s going to be other concerns. and one of the things that citizen lab flagged i
but i think you just hope that the pressure is something they will address because it s so much attention on it. the games are within a bubble, with a bunch of covid checks, et cetera. how difference is this experience been from when you competed just four years ago? so, when i competed four years ago, there was no covid. so, i was just i was literally spreading ing droplet anyone around me. free willie. and i went to tokyo and i was working in tokyo. you know, it was very strict. we felt very safe. here in beijing, it s even stricter. i feel that the athletes feel safe. when you get to the airport here, there s two different covid tests. you take an oral swab and a nasal swab. i don t know if you have felt the pressure of feeling like you re about to use your uvula. i felt like that was going to happen when i took the oral
none of them with criminal record checks. so, we re seeing a compounding of reality in ways that i think make it hard for them. meanwhile, they simply took off too big a bite. their idea of build back better was actually build back a lot bigger, and that s not what the country wants. and so i think we re going to see a replay of 2021 with a disastrous result in november for the democrats. rachel: yeah. looks like it might make a win for republicans come the midterm. speaker gingrich, always a pleasure to get your insight. no one knows more than you on these topics. thank you. rachel: happy new year again to you and can a his it that. happy new year, take care. rachel: taking a live look at the white house as the snow is coming down. winter storm warning is in place for the nation s capital until 4:00 p.m. today. federal offices are closed as 8 inches are expected to fall today. new jersey governor phil murphy also issuing a state of