arious events are happening this week in and around DeKalb County, including an art exhibition hosted by City Schools of Decatur, the Avondale Estates State of the City Address, and the Amplify Decatur Music Festival. Several local government meetings are also scheduled for this week.
your screen, it will take you to the press review on the website. now, millions of people in china have been locked down and their homes because of a surge in covid cases. let s bring in our china correspondent tom cheshire. good morning tom, just how bad is it? morning, kimberly, the numbers don t seem that bad. as 5000 cases which is much smaller than what s happening in the uk not their countries at the moment. but the worry is the trajectory of this. china s manage covid very successfully for a long time. it s been 4600 deaths since the start of the pandemic. when recent days, these cases have been surging, we ve been going up into the thousands when they were in the single digits, the double did this before that. leather worries just how widespread this is. there are millions of people as you say in lockdown and they re all over the country. the province is accounting for a majority of these cases and the omicron cases they have sealed that entire province off.
[ speaking in foreign language ] that s what s left of the north tunnel where the north koreans exploded five nuclear warheads. this is xi s show of strength, at a time when china is more fragile than it has been in any recent years. shrapnel from the explosion littered along the way. we take you to the heart of the stories that shape our world. the train station, the airport, they re both closed. we re not sure about the roads. we ve seen reports they are being blocked by police. we re going to try to find a way out. they re stranded here. this is deliberate. we help you understand the world with us. tom cheshire, sky news, beijing.
major correspondent, tom cheshire, at a staging site, close to the crash zone, and joins us, now live. good morning again to tom. so, what i understand is what happens with this or coming down in the mountains? morning. we are on the staging side, which is a village being taken over by volunteers, who have come from the surrounding towns. it is anyway they can, and it is not the search and rescue operation anymore. investors have been out yesterday, tip-in out this morning, it s this afternoon, and there are no signs of any survivors. but it is turned into, really, is a hunt for clues. it s a difficult hunt for clues, because the debris is tinier. it is such a velocity, and it is tend to associate it, and knows the obliteration is crashing that. it is looking at whether to pass the pilot error, and it is manufacturing the eastern airline, and around this flight,