the chinese approach is zero covid. has it been effective? it has been in china. it s now 11 months since china have recorded a death from covid within china. and very, very low cases, but that comes at a very high cost, and the cost we are seeing is these lockdowns that china imposes on as soon as there is a can of an outbreak and there is mass a hint of an outbreak. testing going on to spot it. so this week have the city of yuzhou 1.1 million people three cases, asymptomatic people identified through testing, the whole city in lockdown. in the city of xi an, as big london, 13 million, has been in lockdown since before christmas and that is 13 million people confined to their homes. again, for a small number of cases. there it is the biggest outbreak they have had since wuhan, about 100 a day, 1800 cases or so the minute plus 111,000 people moved the quarantine.
three cases, asymptomatic people identified through testing, the whole city in lockdown. in the city of xian, as big london, 13 million, has been in lockdown since before christmas and that is 13 million people confined to their homes. again, for a small number of cases. there it is the biggest outbreak they have had since wuhan, about 100 a day, 1800 cases or so the minute plus 111,000 people moved the quarantine. but it s costly. in xian, 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