imagine having to go a whole day wearing full body protective gear covering you from head to toe and your hands, that is what covid workers across china are dealing with. there have been an increasing number of reports of covid workers collapsing or fainting on the job due to heat stroke. in addition to this, resident as you say are required to wait in long lines in that heat to get the mandatory covid tests. this past week, some residents were stooped by the side unable to bear the heat. many people had their umbrellas, ice packs to try to keep them cool. across china, many cities are reaching record temperatures, some of them last week reaching more than 110 degrees farenheit. all of this as china is reporting another surge in covid cases and those snap lockdowns are ruining some people s summer holidays. just this past weekend, thousands of tourists were trapped in the resort town in
this as china reported nearly 700 covid cases, highest since may. there have been an increasing number of snap lockdowns and it is ruining some people s summer holidays. this past weekend, thousands of tourists were trapped in a resort town after they reported a flare-up in covid-19 cases. all of this also is bad for china s economy. you ve got the threat of inflation rising as this heatwave destroys crop fields across china. so this heatwave not just bad for the economy, but also threatening people s lives. that is a great point. i mean, a full body hazmat suit, probably the last thing that you want to wear in a heatwave like this. thank you so much. so here in the u.s., more than 70 million americans are also in the grip of these very high temperatures today. wildfires covering thousands of acres are burning in texas. heat alerts cover most of the plains, the southwest and parts
government said they will require residents across ten of the city s districts in some smaller areas to undergo two rounds of testing for covid-19 over the next three days starting this week. whether it s daily covid testing, china s zero covid strategy continues to impact people s lives nationwide. yeah. and tell us a little bit more, blake, about that impact. what is the economic impact? well, lynda, the cost of zero covid isn t just impacting people s daily lives who in some cases have to provide a negative test just to access public venues and public transportation. it s also causing serious problems for china s economy. last week china reported its worst quarterly performance in two years as a result of major cities across the country experiencing full or partial lockdowns despite the economic impact of the zero covid policy and threat of snap lockdowns
residential compound in shanghai. it would appear that these precedents managed to break out of their homes. and they are confronting police who are holding the gates, screaming at, them saying give us supplies. i think it just goes to illustrate the level of desperation that these people are feeling. they have been locked up in their homes since the end of march. we are talking about 25 million people in the most popular cosmopolitan city in china. shanghai is the engine of the country. it contributes to 4% of gdp and officials had thought, prior to this, way that they did not have to head here to the covid zero we strategy. where we saw the snap lockdowns take place in the rest of the country, they were more about targeted lockdowns. which they were commended for and said how visionary they were in allowing this economic
are experiencing with the government adamant that its dynamic zero covid policy which china s president heralded as great success, this is what they have to live under and the fact they can call these snap lockdowns terrifies people. and you think for good reason those residents are out stockpiling food when as you say they have seen what has happened to other towns and cities when they have had a few cases. appreciate it. now coming up on cnn newsroom, tiger woods does something, you know, kind of record breaking but not what you re thinking. we ll explain when we come back.