Out of covert? i think there s been a lot of very bad out of covert? i think there s been a lot of very bad planning - out of covert? i think there s been a lot of very bad planning in i out of covert? i think there s been | a lot of very bad planning in china. they ve spent an awful lot of money on mass testing and facilities which please nobody. and in some cases aren t used. so these big emergency hospitals and quarantine centres which are primitive in a lot of ways. they really should have been put in more focus into vaccination. even with china s rather less effective vaccines. you get enough of them into the arms of the elderly and then you re safer to try to open up. but that hasn t happened. so instead of that we had this kind of chasing rabbits across the landscape. trying to eliminate covert altogether. it s just not going to happen. and there doesn t seem to have been a plan b at all. so now we have a crisis. this policy isn t working. and the exit is unattractive however
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State media is reporting an outbreak in the capital pyongyang, but hasn t confirmed the number of cases. the country has no vaccination programme despite being offered astrazeneca jabs and china s sinovac vaccine. in china, the covid lockdown of shanghai is now in its seventh week and restrictions are becoming increasingly severe. in certain districts, food deliveries are now banned and residents can be forced into state run quarantine centres if a neighbour tests positive. we re joined now by our shanghai correspondent robin brant good to see you. it is fascinating how the authorities are dealing with this outbreak with the restrictions now and when we think back, and it feels so long ago to the restrictions that we dealt with and had to struggle to get used to them, it s on a different scale in shanghai. it s on a different scale in shanghai- it s on a different scale in shanthai. , , , shanghai. yes, completely. iwas doint a shanghai. yes, completely. iwas doing a quick shang