documentary. this is due to other news coming up virus. in china is virtually quarantined as china fights to contain a new strain of coral biters inside view from the city of 11000000. it's a lockdown in the midst of a festival is all to preparing to celebrate the god of the rat we'll find out the rats admirable qualities and rather you'll want to.

welcome to news asia it's good to have you with us major public events cancelled cities in lockdown and hospitals in overdrive china has taken unprecedented measures to control a coronavirus outbreak that has killed at least 26 people so far the number of cases exceeds 800 the virus the debated in the city of in central china in late december over the past week the city has been placed virtually important teen with public transport shut down and people advised to neither leave nor enter the city the same fate has befallen the least 7 of its native was. g.b. . and millions in effective quarantine in addition one is building a new 1000 bed hospital to treat increasing numbers of cases in the city but the vital is already making its presence felt in large parts not resemble

a ghost town. a city of 11000000 people with almost no one on the streets trains planes buses cars almost nothing leave so enters with han. hospitals and the epicenter of the outbreak of overwhelmed with patients so overwhelmed that authorities have now decided to build a new dedicated hospital from scratch hoping to complete construction in just 6 days. in existing hospitals health workers are working tirelessly against the virus. knows which includes it would of course we're worried and so are our relatives. but we're nurses and will do our job it's long as we wear the uniform just by the rising number of cases the world health organization has refrained from declaring a global health emergency. the advice to d.g.

which is provided by the emergency committee is that no one. but china isn't taking any chances transport links within and to a number of nearby cities have been cut and the fear of contagion has produced dramatic scenes like here at physio airport where a man suspected of carrying the virus was confined to a quarantine container. the lockdown now covers more than 30000000 people and it's putting a serious damper on the union new year holiday. i'm joined now by attorney lin ryan in. the city of the heart of the art bridge of the virus libro thank you so much for speaking to us are just like to start with you just how are you coping with what is virtually a cordon team of your city. well i just stay at home

and. you know me and my little girl had to stay at home for. i think a. playground for her fresh air we don't visit her and friends and also nobody come to us. and. especially. but i just wonder. is it the same story. yes i think most people just. go out. they want to buy. food or. market except except where they get. everything a very. get what they need a. pharmacy i have no idea i

haven't went to and so will market is available. now it's albany 10 pm 10 i am your wife. julie or. i am like 10 pm actually my house. ringback this morning and had. our. hospital. people. that receive treatment and that the hospital will be overwhelmed. no actually there are not you know. many doctors and the nurses are all working overloaded and bad they are also.

and our actions order medical. there are new hospital. patients and. or hopefully that is done in time and it brings some respect to the people of channeling ron speaking to us from day one thank you so much for your time thank you. just one more day to go and with it begin official celebrations of chinese new year it falls on a saturday this time and people will be celebrating with fireworks well into the night it can also log the start of the rat the rat being the 1st animal of the chinese o.d.i. comprised of 12 animals we'll have more on that in a bit but if you'll bawn on any of these the behind me the all chinese zodiac

animal is the rat in which case according to chinese astrology 2020 is meant to be a significant for you that's down to the many special got a distinct people born under this other will sign supposedly possess but rats also represent fertility in chinese culture and paintings depicting them with fruits such as melons and grapes i'm meant to be auspicious these are from an exhibit in the university art museum in hong kong. that's the way to do it for more i'm joined by the dog reporter oh sure amy with me in the studio untrimmed welcome what makes a rat so special of rats ranked the 1st to fall so diet animals so important so it represents wisdom and wealth in the chinese tradition and it's people born in the year of the red are very smart they are cautious organized and they are very strong and have strong adaptability to environments but just like any other so dyke

animals they have some shortcomings so they can go if. they do complain a lot and some so dyke animals can actually cope with that very well oxen for example they can really cope with that well i don't know if that's true in the reality but said yeah that's what's been said and horses on the other hand they aren't they are not very compatible with threats are you or no i'm not i will tell you about later lives are ok. rats are part of the 12 the family of 12 other moles that make up the chinese zodiac why do we have animals in the chinese zodiac do you want to have a straightforward answer on what fanciful respect for this will be a sort of a i'll tell you the straightforward ones 1st so i think we can see this as a byproduct of the chinese calendar system so just like many other civilizations the chinese needed a system to calculate a measure of time accurately and the system consists of

a 12 year cycle so how can you make how do ordinary people understand it so i think putting animals assigning animals for each year is to easiest way to go and now more fanciful one that's what i mean yeah the legend says that in prehistoric times the jade amphora the rule of heaven decided to assign edible for each year so a group of animals took part in it including the rat so the brad was very small but it was very small so it made its way to become. the 1st and there are the animals as well for example the pig actually did intend to join but it's all oh maybe i could have something to eat so it came and accidentally became the last of all animal of the animals and i think the poorest competitors of all was probably the cat the cat wanted to join but it was tricked by the rat so it missed the race i love the fans for i am a more well very quickly what some say and i sort of zodiac sign i you i'm

a horse for 7 in the race and it's chinese new year begins on saturday what do you like most about chinese new year well i like that it's threats because bread is my favorite color and it's the color of celebration so i'm right today. and i also like that it's very colorful so we see that those fireworks fake fireworks everywhere and i used to watch that with my family every year when i was small and so i think a family. new year is the time for relatives to get together and have very good food like food is very important so was there are fresh herbs are here and last but not least you get red packets from all from like all the people and they're wrapped in money and what brought sorry brecht with the money and it should bring blessings to receive this so. it's a money tree windfalls as i would say our family thanks very much for coming in to do and explaining that to us. and keeping with the spirit of that

using the opportunity to try and dispose ceo's of misconceptions about the rodents . by this report for us. on a mission as always. ahead of the lunar new year these fairy creech is a time something special becoming embassadors to build understanding for rodents among human beings. the animals that we see around the scenes they're obviously quite exotic quite majestic and we want to inspire them to appreciate all animals not just the erotica ones. who says rudin's come to call a majestic look at these cappy paris sitting like a lion kings. and to food it was one of them away. it still works quite elegantly though. unlike these little squid lists they can't

help but read on each other. it's a new use special treat. but the seuss says these rats are otherwise very good pets. they actually get clean because the. toilet to give it a tree like. this and the small. easy to be trimmed. like what we have here you can see that yeah pretty badly and cute. except that they might nibble at everything you have. but that would be forgiven for it's the year of the rex. and all that's left to do now is to wish your chimney and quite happy chinese new when see you on monday.

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must change its obsession with shareholder value. welcome to do business asia i want to get john's a bill in good to have you with us. china has quarantined cities and shut major tourist attractions from disneyland to the forbidden city and a section of the great wall as it scrambles to stop corona virus from spreading further public transport has been stopped in more than 10 cities with train station shot events canceled and see it is closed this asia's biggest economy prepares for the new new year festivities normally a crucial time for business many chinese citizens are rushing to the supermarkets to buy food and daily items and book shelves stocking staples such as meat the.