,,,,,. ,,,,,,. . ,,,,,,. . ,,. ,,,,. ,. . ,,,,,,. ,,,. ,,. ,,. ,,. ,,? ,,,,,,,,,,. ,,,. ,. ,. ,,. . ,,,,,,. ,. but every day is a good day, tomorrow is officially the last day of this four-day pause. and so, the next question will be, whether the possibility of extending that pause for more hostages to be released, and also more palestinian prisoners to be released. that does in fact happen. kieran, one more question for. you do you, know or have any sense about how long it is expected to take until these hostages are crossing into the border to israel? that s a great question. you know, the difficulty is that, while we are hearing that handover has happened, we are not being told exactly what time it happened. so it is incredibly difficult standing here, or frankly for, any of us honestly to know. but based on the experience of the past few days i would say, anytime now, we would get the news that these hostages have indeed been handed over to israeli authorities. and
lowered some of the tensions. trace: chinese protesters claim apple restricted its airdropped feature inside the country, something they relied on for sharing information during the 2019 protest. in los angeles, covid cases, flu cases in other cases are on the rise in the course alley county is now strongly recommending a return to masking indoors. how long before recommendation turns into a mandate. with us now, whom on hammadi. the last time we did this, l.a. county was inflating numbers in hospitals and they got busted. we haven t seen that yet but you know something like that is coming because they loved put put people in masks. the messaging from l.a. county public health department has changed, it used to say prevent covid, wear a mask and now they re messaging online, these new graphics say prevent common cold, rsv, flu, and covid.
price range. they re trying to do the right thing, get tested before seeing their loved ones. this is a real problem, isn t it? it certainly is. testing is an issue that this administration and governors in the states have to deal with, and we need to get more tests out there, make them more available. we re never going to test our way out of this pandemic. the bottom line is we need more people vaccinated. we need to stop the flow of disinformation about vaccines and get out the idea we can treat covid instead of prevent covid. then the need for a test will kind of go away over time. zero covid-19 is extremely unlikely at this point. but keeping people out of the hospital, keeping people from dying, that is absolutely possible. we see it every day when 98% of our icus are filled with unvaccinated covid patients when they re there for covid. to me that is the most critical, most important thing we can do is get more people vaccinated and stop the flow of disinformation that s prevent
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.