reporter: shanghai resident pushing back after nearly three weeks of lockdown. these videos circulating on social media show people confronting police for being forced from homes. these are not people with covid-19, but rather people whose apartments are being turned into government facilities to surp surge with the covid cases. chinese officials vow to send every positive case of covid-19 and any close contact to government quarantine, no matter the age. here, you see an elderly man shuffling towards a group of other senior scitizens, some in their 90s, most in wheelchairs transferred from this iets lagz city after testing positive. video shared from inside another center shows elderly patients seemingly unattended. cots set up in halls with wooden boards and thin sheets as bedding. since the start of the outbreak in early march, more than 400,000 cases have been reported
in the east chl. i fear these places i visited just before the invasion will be besieged. that will be a catastrophe. there fighting men in there who are not going to give up and then it s fill of elderly people. disabled people, who cannot leave. so we need a easter cease-fire, like secretary general of the u.n. has asked for. easter now in the next coming of days so that we can bring aid in, and get the disabled people out. so your biggest person is that mariupol will not be the last sort of sieged city which comes under russian siege and we talk aboutable poblly 20,000 dead civilians inside mariupol. when you talk about these cities besieged by the russian forces, it is the most vulnerable who are left behind. it is the elderly, the disabled as you say. that presents its own unique challenges for groups like yours, so how do you deal with
rivers. reporter: the azov steel plan housing mariupol s last line of defense. if the defenders here fall, so goes the city. a few days ago, george says he was right in the heart of the fight. i never seen such brutal devastating war cause russians are just trying to execute civilians. reporter: he spoke to us via video chat from an undisclosed location. severely injured during the tighting, he says he was smuggled out to recover. he is a georgian national and a commander in the azov battalion, one of the few remaining units left defending the city. he was among the soldiers fighting russians, while at the same time, taking care of hundreds civilians sheltering until the area, in videos cnn can t verify posted on ukrainian
government s social media. so how kong do you think your group can take care of all your people and yourselves? that is hoard to answer. hard to answer for me. time is short. reporter: tens of thousands of citizens in besieged mariupol still need to be evacuated. on wednesday, a slight glimmer of hope. a humanitarian corridor agreed to by both sides where civilians could evacuate mariupol, heading to boardiansk. the city s mayor urging people to use it. he said during these long and incredibly difficult days you survived, you may have heard different things but you want you to know the main thing, they were waiting for you in zaporizhzhia. it is safe there. video from mariupol city council shows bussed lines up ready to take those who want today leave. it is unclear how many got on
in the city according to china s health commission. and more than 25 million people are still in strict lockdown. cnn s been living through it. we have mostly been sealed inside our homes, let out only for mandatory-covid test and the occasional government distribution of groceries. last week, we had a brief taste of freedom. i could step out of my apartment, and waall the way to the compound gate. still, double locked. but since, a reversal for our community, new restrictions have us sealed back inside our properties. the draconian and inconsistent properties, coupled with constant uncertainty weigh heavily. people tired, pushing back physically and through words. these banners appeared on the streets of shanghai in a cover of night. this one, calling residents to resist the limit lts lockdown. this one reading people are dying.