in the airport and now is spread to 11 provinces. let s go to beijing and we have more on. that hi, stephen. what can you tell us about the outbreak? well, hi, robyn, on sunday, the government recorded 99 new locally confirmed cases. obviously this number pales in comparison to what we are seeing in many parts of the world, including the u.s. in this you know can in this country , w have not seen it in months. now, she was the same senior official they sent to wuhan in the beginning of the pandemic that, is how seriously concerned they feel about the spread of the new cluster as you were saying shows no sign of abating with new cases being reported by local officials throughout a day and now impacting not just airport staff but crew, school children, tourists and doctors and nurses across china. that is why increasingly we are
confirmed to have the delta variant. delta is not confirming the reason for those cancellation. let s go to beijing with steven jiang standing by. this latest cluster in shenzhen, it s a new variant in guangdong a month ago. the new daily cases relatively low, single digit or low double digits but given this is in china, many officials, especially at the local level, adopt this zero tolerance policy. that s why you ve seen them take a familiar page from their playbook you the, mass testing, extensive tracing and lockdown, in the case of shenzhen, because one of the two patients was a restaurant worker at the airport. that s why you ve not only seen hundreds of flight cancellations and new rules regarding
ever means many are still beyond rescuers reach. plus 2 long time rivals in the battle it out in europe while a fine friday evening with germany taking on the netherlands. i m william blue cruft it s good to have you with us bilateral relations and mutual trust are high on the agenda during chancellor angela merkel s 2 day visit to china arriving today she met with premier league. during an official state welcome at the great hall of the people in beijing they are expected to discuss deepening free trade ties between their countries merrill has said that china a u.s. trade war is having global consequences and she hopes it can be resolved soon. for more let s go to beijing with simeon a mystery on a reporter with the d.p.a.
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since early june. let s go to beijing and bring in matt rivers. matt, this is a bizarre story. good morning. reporter: it is very weird. good morning, dave. this would be like if meryl streep or jennifer lawrence disappeared in the united states and no one has any idea. it is hard to overstate how famous fan bingbing is here in china. that is why the story is really taking off. a huge talk in china. it goes back to her being alleged to be involved in a tax avoidance scheme. signing fake contracts in china to avoid paying taxes. she was accused in late may. the chinese authority says they would launch the investigation. fan bingbing denied the allegation. one social media post in june and she has not been seen or heard since. we reached out to the tax administrators and fan bingbing s people and foreign ministry and no one has commented.