but with some countries already adopting extra travel requirements for chinese visitors, and the united states citing a lack of transparent data, officials in beijing reject any suggestion that china has lost control. translation: the argumentl you mentioned is a bias smear campaign and political manipulation, with a hidden agenda which does not stand up to scrutiny or facts and runs counter to the truth. after last month s nationwide protests, this is the image china wants to project of a country finally turning its back on the virus and on its own draconian response. but china s long, hard battle with covid is far from over. paul adams, bbc news. more than 400 people injapan have died with covid in each of the last two days that s a record high. since november, infections and deaths have been steadily rising. although, authorities there are considering downgrading covid, so that patients no longer need to be isolated.
translation: since this morning, we ve had lots of inquiries - from oui’ customers. they re asking whether they can travel abroad normally again, whether they ll need to quarantine on their return and when international tourism will return. but with some countries already adopting extra travel requirements for chinese visitors, and the united states citing a lack of transparent data, officials in beijing reject any suggestion that china has lost control. translation: the argumentl you mentioned is a bias smear campaign and political manipulation, with a hidden agenda which does not stand up to scrutiny or facts and runs counter to the truth. after last month s nationwide protests, this is the image china wants to project of a country finally turning its back on the virus and on its own draconian response. but china s long, hard battle with covid is far from over. paul adams, bbc news.
considering new restrictions. and, in europe, italy has become the first country to say that it s making coronavirus tests mandatory. back in beijing, officials reject any suggestion china has lost control. translation: the argument. you mentioned is a biased smear campaign and political manipulation with a hidden agenda, which doesn t stand up to scrutiny and runs counter to the truth. after last month s nationwide protest, this is the image china wants to project a country finally turning its back on the virus and on its own draconian response. but china s long, hard battle with covid is far from over. paul adams, bbc news. professor anne rimoin from ucla fielding school of public health told me why she was concerned about china s recent surge in covid cases. i think the issue here is that we don t have a lot of data coming out of china right now. we don t have case counts,
from oui’ customers. they re asking whether they can travel abroad normally again, whether they ll need to quarantine on their return and when international tourism will return. but with some countries already adopting extra travel requirements for chinese visitors, and the united states citing a lack of transparent data, officials in beijing reject any suggestion that china has lost control. translation: the argumentl you mentioned is a bias smear campaign and political manipulation, with a hidden agenda which does not stand up to scrutiny or facts and runs counter to the truth. after last month s nationwide protests, this is the image china wants to project of a country finally turning its back on the virus and on its own draconian response. but china s long, hard battle with covid is far from over. paul adams, bbc news.
on their return and when international tourism will return. but with some countries already adopting extra travel requirements for chinese visitors, and the united states citing a lack of transparent data, officials in beijing reject any suggestion that china has lost control. translation: the argumentl you mentioned is a bias smear campaign and political manipulation, with a hidden agenda which does not stand up to scrutiny or facts and runs counter to the truth. after last month s nationwide protests, this is the image china wants to project of a country finally turning its back on the virus and on its own draconian response. but china s long, hard battle with covid is far from over. paul adams, bbc news. i m joined now by professor anne rimoin, from the department of epidemiology at the ucla fielding school of public health.