in the uk and around the world. china is showing its determination to continue with its zero covid strategy. the authorities have put an entire city into lockdown after the discovery of just three asymptomatic cases. residents won t be allowed to leave their homes in yuzhou, which has a population of 1.2 million. the transport system has been shut down, as well as shops and entertainment venues. only food stores can stay open and only workers involved in epidemic prevention are allowed out. another city, xi an, with a population of 13 million, has been under lockdown for two weeks. our correspondent robin brant sent this report.
a chinese city of more than1 million people is under lockdown after three reported cases under the government s zero covid strategy. as the us hits the highest number of daily infections ever recorded anywhere in the world, president biden urges people to get vaccinated. let s stay with that story now. i ve been speaking to professor lawrence gostin, director of the world health organisation s center on public health and human rights. he says there may be bad news, but there s also good news. the bad news is that the omicron variant is perhaps the most contagious pathogen on the planet and one of the most contagious that we ve ever seen in history of humankind. but the better news is that the cases don t reflect the same level of hospitalisations and deaths, so we are seeing more and more people hospitalised, but that s only because we ve
and there s a temperature check, but the government says its zero covid strategy has achieved this for about 18 months now. and that s a strategy that includes things like this pop up tents where you can get a booster on the way home and win prizes as well. but it also includes very, very harsh measures that can be imposed on a city in a matter of hours. harsh measures, brutal enforcement. it s been part of china s covid containment since the beginning. just last month, some cities were parading covid spreading offenders in public. keeping cases at near zero is now even more important as china prepares to host another olympics. the winter games in beijing is just a month away. china s president, xijinping, saw for himself the final preparations on tuesday. on the brink of a third term in power, he wants and needs a smooth ride at the games. zero covid is central to that. robin brant, bbc news, shanghai.
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