all right. thanks. let s bring in professor ben cowling. chair of epidemiology at the university of hong kong, but he joins us now from england. good to see you, professor. i want to ask you first about a big story here in right now where you have a number of top government officials who are issuing public apologies. this after they attended a big birthday party in a spanish tapas restaurant monday days after the health secretary here told the public to avoid large crowds because the city was on the verge of a fifth wave of covid infections. now you have all these lawmakers and top government officials going into mandatory government quarantine, and at least one local transmission case from that party, possibly a second, we re getting mixed reports about a false positive there. the question being, is it possible now that we have a
clusters of infection. in the city of xian, level 2 lock down, the whole city considered a controlled area which means schools, public transportation are closed. all but essential services are stopped. that means that in every household, just one designated person can go out to get groceries once every two days and otherwise, unless there s a medical emergency, you have to stay inside. all of this affecting 13 million people for just over 200 confirmed cases, state media saying 30,000 of their close contacts are in government quarantine right now. china is just weeks away from the opening ceremonies, beijing 2022 winter olympics and trying to keep covid from spreading inside the country just before the lunar new year travel rush. and many thanks to all our international correspondents. i m ryan nobles in washington. thank you for joining me on this holiday weekend. appreciate you watching. have a good night.
growing. among the cities with new outbreaks wuhan after roughly a year of enjoying life near normal, the original epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak is testing each of its 11 million residents. families canceling summer travel plans, opting instead to stay home. several communities sealed off. thousands taken into government quarantine for observation. the lockdowns, the mass testing, strict contact tracing through smart phones all being enforced once again. it might all sound extreme but china s domestic containment efforts along with the tight border restrictions seem to have been working. aside from a few isolated cluster outbreaks, life here had mainly returned to the way it was pre-covid. but officials say a commercial flight from russia changed that. the plane landing in the eastern city on july 10th suspected of carrying the highly contagious delta variant. july 20th officials confirmed
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The Civil Aviation Authority of Sri Lanka The Hon.Minister of Tourism and Aviation has instructed this office of the following:
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