To show the cases are consistently coming down. so that is good news. but this thing has not bottomed out yet. the government is shifting the goalposts slightly. it s not aiming for absolute zero covid now. what it s aiming for is something it calls societal zero covid , so no cases are springing up outside of quarantine centres, outside of places where people already identified are being contained. so that s what it s aiming for by this weekend. it has been brutal, though, for many people. tens of thousands taken off to quarantine centres, many of them 100 miles or more away from shanghai, and kept in varying conditions. some of those people have been very young, some have been very old, but all of them taken away because this government remains committed to maintaining its zero covid policy. if you test positive
Of covid infections. but the government is now considering a shift from its zero covid policy. robin brant has more, from shanghai. we are approaching the end of our fifth week of a lockdown that has confined almost everyone in this city this vast city of almost 25 million people to their homes, or in some cases their places of work. now, the good news is that the statistics appear to show the cases are consistently coming down. so that is good news. but this thing has not bottomed out yet. the government is shifting the goalposts slightly. it s not aiming for absolute zero covid now. what it s aiming for is something it calls societal zero covid , so no cases are springing up outside of quarantine centres, outside of places where people already identified are being contained. so that s what it s aiming for by this weekend. it has been brutal, though, for many people. tens of thousands taken off to quarantine centres,
The past five weeks. but there are signs of a small shift in government policy as robin brant reports. in this city this vast city of almost 25 million people to their homes, or in some cases their places of work. appear to show the cases are consistently coming down. so that is good news. but this thing has not bottomed out yet. the government is shifting the goalposts slightly. it s not aiming for absolute zero covid now. what it s aiming for is something of places where people already it has been brutal, though, for many people. tens of thousands taken off to quarantine centres,