Background. Sometimes it was as a senior background. Sometimes it was as a senior member of the collective leadership of medical Profession And Health care medical Profession And Health care more widely. So those other care more widely. So those other two kind of environments. I other two kind of environments. Hust other two kind of environments. Iiust warit other two kind of environments. Ijust want to be clear by the i just want to be clear by the remit of your role as a cmo. It may be at times we trespassed into matters that you provided advice from or in the room where decisions were being made but please make it clear s you are unable to answer any question or it is outwith your spirit or expertise. Can i start with this. In module two, you explain that when the reasons for the lockdown in March 2020 was to prevent The Nhs from being overwhelmed. Can i ask, was overwhelmed ever defined by those that were making that decision . Flat making that decision . Not really and making that
To European Markets opening up, and the close in asia saw significant gains in Hong Kong and japan. The picture there is across the world, that is last night but this is what we are drawing our attention to here, the Hang Seng up by almost 4 and then Ak Injapan up by 3 as well. For more, joining me now is rory green, chief China Economist at t5 lombard. How significant are the new measures . It isa it is a significant Step Up in stimulus from beijing. What we have had announced so far, and we have got clarity on the monetary Side And Today the Politburo Set for september gave us an indication, we do not yet know the size of a fiscal stimulus and that will be crucial to assess the acceleration of growth. As you touched on, until traders are loving these signs and china assets are ripping higher. Observers have been saying for quite some time that beijing needs to do something dramatic to stimulate its economy. Why has it waited so long or until this point to do so . It has it waited so
anyway we can and i talk this morning to madame prichard and steve powys, and all those who are running the nhs and i appreciate the pressures our hospitals are under, i think it is vital that we make sure we help them by trying to contain the pandemic in the ways that i have set out, so do all the things i ve said, make sure we follow plan b, get boosted but also help the nhs with their staffing requirements and we are looking at what we can do to move people into those areas that are particularly badly affected but do not forget that whatever. .. no matter how incredibly transmissible omicron is, there is no question that really spreads very, very fast, it is different from previous variants and it does seem pretty conclusively to be less severe than delta or alpha and it is putting