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tv   Virus Lockdown In Beijing  Al Jazeera  March 29, 2020 7:32pm-8:01pm +03

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i think that i don't have those places nobody it affects all countries and it does not obey borders because does not distinguish between past economic policies made by one country or another was that the response count only be national it must be a european response it has to be responsible we all role is one whether we are dutch spanish portuguese italian or german it has to be a european response as well as he has reported a number 756 deaths from the corona virus slightly less than yesterday the country still has the highest death toll in the wild at more than 10000 the government says it's likely to extend a nationwide lockdown beyond april 3rd to try to stop the spread in iran $123.00 people have died in the last 24 hours that brings its total to more than $2600.00 officials have committed one 5th of the national budget to fighting the virus all those are the headlines the news continues here to what i want me just.
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in the midst of a chronic doris plant in china is in the. beijing capital of the world's most populous nation stands desertion. millions of residents of forced to stay behind closed doors in moves now being replicated in countries across the globe. this episode of one of one they just report from inside the quarantine capital of beijing. it's been months since there's been a real reason to get up in beijing. other than to see the
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latest infection right from the epidemic. i came to china as a journalist in 2007 i'm married lulu a beijing go we have one son and leave in an apartment building in the north of beijing i often travel around china for my work but there's no moving now and the niagara. around the cities barrie is have sprung up everywhere. in the provinces across neighborhoods and around age apartment block where i live many new uniform chick everyone going in and out. the communist party security apparatus is in full force
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neighborhood committees which usually monitor the political or social behavior of residents have now been turned into virus watchdogs with temperature checks mandatory quarantine if you leave the city and mandatory muffed the people of beijing have gradually disappeared from the. force to stay at home by both the government and fear. so this is the only kind of report possible a story of confinement our days seem empty but i hope many questions for the future of china. and the world. this one pace of the. family unity has never been so strong. i even managed to get my son to give me a hand for just you know. the tap water isn't drinkable so buffel water has to be
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delivered almost every day since our neighborhood is closed off to outsiders we have to go and pick up the water. my son is lucky the barrier that blocks off the entrance to our building isn't hawr. since the epidemic began lou and i must take new precautions each time before going out we put on our mocks. since the quarantine began we can't go anywhere without one. on the wise will be arrested. this is what the last of the 4 entrances to our area looks like a chick point. to late we've been given exit cards. checked every time we go through.
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looking at these beijing streets you think it's 5 o'clock on a sunday morning instead it's mid afternoon on a friday. normally on a friday night she looks like this. it's nice to have more breathing room for a change but it does start to feel a bit more and. to make this tense situation works a temperature is checked every 300 matches with. the sort of. the shopping mall is as empty as the straights. luckily the basketball court still open to liven things up. i'm surprised they
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still allowed to play without knox. we can still find some hand sanitizer but who knows for how long. there's another temperature check at the supermarket at least there are a few more people here. since we've been quarantined we do a lot more kooky. it's a relief to see 4 shelves in the supermarket. everyone in beijing saw the peaches on social media of the empty stores in wu han the situation in the epicenter of the epidemic with tame of the thousands of people infected is on everyone's mind. but the situation here is nowhere near as severe as woo han. nevertheless the city is in lockdown.
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i'm a genius lee my translator in beijing subway. the temperature is checked as she enters the station all the entrances and now a quick with the imaging system. if your temperature is above the threshold of 37.3 degrees you kept behind this barrier before being sent to hospital. in every train a guard ensures that everyone is wearing a mask. there are many people to check. the problem is there's a shortage of slots. mislay and a going to try and find some. way to young rather. than have the mask that i've often thought. i know you go down there.
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and the cut out. the only mask he has left cost $45.00 he's happy to recommend it to contravene our. hands are. desperate they will say yes to the transporter you will sell them. $100.00 will be all the harder maybe on their home. and he will. take the can you got plenty money under my door run you under the law for a colonel one interlude allen here. your moods luminol not jaylen unclear. them their names and the last amen if you know i'm don. lemon alla new line of how. you are not on our line i'm on the new york on a. and god i hate that. you know national gamblers are. unimplementable round to learn now that i found them until now. i don't really jr
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now don't you know you'll do the loser. and i'm. going. i'm going. we keep looking and try another pharmacy a few blocks further the wrong way but it's even more discouraging. in this walk. and. how you might well. feel much the stuff won't even open the door and my heart when we try to ask them anything. after several attempts one pharmacist finally agrees to come talk to us now of make hell of a national. how can we expect them before without mom. the situation does explain why everyone is
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at home. i had to tiananmen square to see what it's like in the heart of the city the footpaths have been closed off so the only solution is to go around the square by by. to the north of the beaten city there are police everywhere keeping people out. the city is never be sorry for being. a fuming says further on is john high the government headquarters. its leaders work and live behind the store confined by the fear of the bars. it's impossible to stop anywhere near.
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and lastly is the most impressive view to lodge a square in the world full of history with mal's muscling him right in the center lately deserted and on the plus $39.00 men who come when they have a chance here. with such tight restrictions at my apartment building and in the city center i'm curious to see how it is in beijing poorest neighborhoods as he accompanies house they work in small one room or. mr cheney is a taxi driver who was hired him for the day to show me around. they
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had to wait and hear what are you going there for you and yeah yeah when the highways are going to destroy them i'm going to. have him back. it's impossible to enter without the necessary pos we try using mr chen. who have been coming here for her younger brother ben a woman from richard i mean i was true down there with me you know they're. not the only ones wife no one escapes the right of the neighborhood committees these workers along with local communist party branches manage the quarantine procedures and they're going to from or they not only grant entry and exit passes but report people with a fever all those who go outside without a mosque everyone is checked even this couple who have lived here for the past 7 years as all that it was the are you know. really you aren't seeing and don't want
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to play it you think and they are here and they shout that they are not my dear fellow human. would never never forgive me i felt. now that you can you cannot have. we refused entry without the necessary pass so we tried another entrance. with. all nonsense and you can't have under one meeting but you know who. are the people. living in beijing these days means spending a. all of your time at checkpoints our driver is getting worried about being able
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to return hard. we try one what interests. me and if. i think of the next i mean. since the crisis began the number of local committee workers has risen volunteers as they call themselves a swelling in the ranks in the nation's bid to fuck the bar in reality they opined by the state to ensure that everyone a base the route. the summaries the less he. can but i don't watch i would tell you. that i would i translate. like everywhere else the streets the desert. it's hard to find anyone to talk to. except that this man is outside for the 1st time in days shy of.
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her. book here if you would you know if we went to a matter well the fire was a bunch. the entries were. that if. we stopped at another checkpoint this time in the middle of the road. i want to imagine what their time and their home but when i. got to. go to israel is already what you have feeling. when you're. driving that's. what it. is you know i think.
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there's a surprise waiting for me when i get back home. and. this is the 1st time i've seen an ambulance at my building where there's been no confirmed case. we now ibu to check almost in real time if anyone is still in the building special ops allow us to locate those who was sick. no. one bruce. seen wafa it. usual in. the manner. they offered for the young my lad he is a. real korea 57 if it purely for each red dot means a case of infection in chinese society where everyone shopping habits movements and
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faces a monitored it's impossible to go on an arsonist piece and not cleek. thank you no 2 in my land yeah i'm not gone the. deep beastly. talk you know meant the one minor issue. of how that is hockey are not washed down . and they couldn't look munden to sin would take me. i'm all but. one of you do you want. me. most of the cases picked up by the op i hear in the city center. wangfujing street is does a. it's usually crowded with shoppers outside the big department store today instead
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of showing advertisement screens get out warning this is for preventing the spread of the virus. in the middle of the street the market is closed behind a barrier with a message and now it's an upcoming renovations but no one knows when. the day's along for shopkeepers. mrs owns a cafe the only one that's open around here today i'm her only customer oh gosh. cheers how gung ho on a. high heart that's. what joy of oil has got for her you have a. whole. other it's a woman play 200 asher of play for the shoes and i think you can judge about that
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in callbacks. l. how to make handle about. how to play. shop shit and telling machines. the city's asleep we feeling really cooped up at home these days any little asing is very welcome. since no one can visit us from the outside and everything's closed we decide to go visit and my back yard. we don't know him that well but we always say hi when we making the copy. there are those out. there fighting hard on i was there. gary lives with his wife in caps usually sells 2nd hand cars but now like everyone else he's been cooped up in the
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more than a month at heart james closed restaurants closed and the barber shop closed so there's no coming here so. i told my guys to do everything everything that's interesting in my home i play a game i do the work of i think it's rated barring it's rated r. because so bored. dearies allowed to go out but he doesn't dad he's too worried. every day i woke up. the 1st emerged always to check that death toll. yeah every day because it's so i'm really concerning concern about this since the quarantine began he hasn't missed any of the government news broadcasts. really but your wonderful my home in sunny and i'm sure all faith involved others are all what a national incident and they are stroken you know. the drought i don't know them of
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course. a hard sell what guns are on the trunk. wrong k'naan pummel. remember we. don't show the other social media don't they don't they don't those here. and. there is a god only going to church. means and ends our freedom of others rebellious for us and wellingborough truth i want all national or. all thought only go to them and saying that it isn't a condo or your i mean there were some of us on the whole or 1000 without truly there are for example. transparency or not the news gary watches is enough to keep him locked inside. every night the government channel shows images of the crisis inside hospitals sick people and how doctors really are
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a coordinates and. they show images from out of the sea he has to shine the governments with official response. and the prime minister is sitting an example do you want to convey that the situation is under control. with aids passing down beijing becomes more in the streets usually awash with cars and paper . now there's nothing but it definitely signs. back at harm. our entrance is not only closed but now it's a highway beds has been put on. every day life is
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a steady stream of deliverymen. of handing us provisions over the fence. here. it's a big move would to get out a lot of folks. with feeling more trapped every diet. we can't bear being indoors any longer so we try to venture outside. the monitoring situation changed 2 days ago now we have to go through this military town. the color of a car does change depending on how many cases are around us now we like grain but we don't know what that means. outside the streets are more deserted than ever.
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the only people we see either have red on bends or take out temperature and other such. yeah. even the boscobel players are gone the course is off limits into further north. london one and you. cannot another plan for that. evil little. mailman mail move. along one of.
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the minute we have. one of those u.s. hockey. oh i don't. know. we only have 2 cods for a family of 3 now there was there's no way of knowing if it's a good or bad song but we conquer why some families only have one and are only allowed outside once every 2 or 3 die. in these fought to kick the virus out of the barricades a getting higher and now it's a challenge not only confronting china but one taking place across the world.
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