thanks so much, karen mcginest there. now covid cases in shanghai china appear to be on the way down. some good news. on friday, the global financial hub reporting just over 10,000 infections, a fall of 5,000 from the day before. shanghai has been one of the countries hardest-hit cities during the latest outbreak. on friday, china crediting its zero covid policies with protecting lives as well as minimizing economic impacts. the chinese government defends the harsh covid policy as a, quote, magic weapon to prevent the spread of the virus. shanghai covid numbers are gradually falling, as we said. but daily case counts still remain fairly high. and millions are still under strict lockdown, including cnn s david culliver who has more for us from shanghai. reporter: lockdown in china is like nowhere else on earth. here you see a man getting
approximatbe on the way down. on friday, global financial hub reported just over 10,000 new infections, a fold of over 5,000 from the day before. shanghai has been one of the hardest-hit cities during this latest outbreak. on friday, china credited its zero-covid policy with protecting lives, as well as minimizing the economic impact. the chinese government defends that harsh-covid policy as a, quote, magic weapon to prevent the spread of the virus. shanghai covid nrch numbers are gally calling but daily-case counts do remain fairly high and millions are still under a strict lockdown, including cnn s david culver. reporter: locked down in china is like nowhere else on earth. here, you see a man getting swabbed for a covid test through the fence. using a megaphone, healthcare workers call for others to get tested. the countrs zero-koe vid
they are going to use both those and video they are gathering at the scene. they will try and use china s famous advances in facial recognition technology to match the prints with the pictures they ve taken and try to identify who the protesters were and then they will go after them. they promised overnight that they will take a hard line on these protests. hong kong has seen nothing like this. this morning, this global financial hub has been getting back to normal but maybe nothing can be quite normal after this because this is still a city in the middle of a deep, deep political crisis. the city s leader there condemned the protest. she tried to reaffirm her willingness, do you think that will have any impact especially