a 48,000 a 118,000 people moved to quarantine. 40,000. 40,000. but it s costly. in xi an, the difficulty now is the ability of the local government to keep the people fed and people needing to get out and get medical treatment there was a case just in the last few days of a woman trying to get to hospital, the hospital staff would not let her in because she did not have a negative covid test that was valid on herself she had a miscarriage and lost her baby. that s circulated on social media. and an elderly man, too, did not get to hospital in time and died and there is now criticism circulating of, what is the cost of this lockdown when there are very few deaths? the pressures is starting to mount there and, i think, can china continue this? particularly with the omicron variant now. this was worked with the less transmissible variant, the difficulty for china is, if the more transmissible one gets in and starts to spread, because the chinese vaccines, the testing at the
to hospital in time and died and there is now criticism circulating of, what is the cost of this lockdown when there are very few deaths? the pressures is starting to mount there and, i think, can china continue this? particularly with the omicron variant now. this was worked with the less transmissible variant, the difficulty for china is, if the more transmissible one gets in and starts to spread, because the chinese vaccines, the testing at the minute seems to show that the chinese vaccines that they ve used on the chinese population may not be very effective against the omicron variant, it s not the new type of vaccine and that could be a real difficulty. thank you very much. on christmas day, the bbc reported the reopening of a church in india administered kashmir shut since violence in the muslim majority state more than 30 years ago. as worshippers said their prayers in haryana, a state controlled by the bjp, the hindu nationalist party, which also provides india s government, a