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a right now climate change if any, off the story this is much less the way from just one week. how much was can really get we still have time to go. i'm going with his subscribe all morning like i did other news asia coming up today to be doing so for the spike in gorge. 19 cases ahead of the opening of the olympic games this friday or saturdays are stepping up measures to cobb this bread, but will they be enough? and what does the fall out for ordinary citizens in beijing?

and i look it's, i was 0 over the, brought to the pandemic. that is keeping families apart. is it time for typing to look for another strategy? ah, i british energy. welcome to d, w. news asia. glad you could join us. authorities in beijing are doubling down on the 0 corporate policy ahead of the opening of the olympic games. on friday, several residential areas in the north of the city have been sealed off after to call the cases were found. another 119 cases have also been detected in the last 4 days among athletes and stuff arriving for the games. it brings to well over 200, the number of people testing positive of those who have arrived so far. beijing has set up a closed loop bubble system to prevent participants in the games from coming into contact with local people. get more of this from dallas 5 in credit for joint be

now from beijing with more fabia and a $119.00 cases. of course, in the last 4 days in the olympics bubble, how confident are authorities? they'll be able to pull these olympics off safely. yeah, i mean, the numbers have already far exceeded the anticipations of the organize us. but of course an army chronister. we a game changer here am, but despite the relative high number of cases and at least a rhetoric of the state media, he is still quite confident they praised her epidemiological work of the authorities with in the olympic bubble. of course, you might argue that this is a propaganda, but also with a more sobering em critical view on things. you have to acknowledge that just from an epidemiological point of view, the safety bible, the safety concept of the olympic games is really quite efficient. and strict as a matter of fact, as strict as a can be, every participant from athletes to journalist, to volunteers, they have to undergo

a nuclear test every day and they cannot mingle with the rest of the population. they are literally fences around the hotels in every venue and special am vehicles are transporting the participants from one venue to the other. and after the games are over, they directly have to either leave the country or have to undergo a 3 week current in and what impact is this olympics bubble or having on bridging residence? actually not as much as you might expect. i mean, what i always see as it, there were more traffic jams because in the big streets are one lane is always reserved for the olympic vehicles. and then secondly, i know that because now it's actually already the trouble season of m, lunar new year. many beijing residents have already left the city and. and if they come back, there were some, were told to stay a little bit longer until the olympic games over, but that's about it. i mean,

the residents are not able to buy tickets. so you could argue that the olympic games are basically out a little bit separate from the public. and what is the situation refer, covered 19 in bridging yeah, i mean the today there were only 3 new cases were just said, but still am, at least in some districts the a mattress are quite strict, especially in from ty that's at the other end of town and there are several compounds am totally sealed off, residents cannot leave, they have to undergo a daily testing, et cetera, here, where i am in charge on district life goes on a relatively, as normal. but if you look behind me, here is one of the tense aware there's a mass testing station. and even today it was pretty crowded. so that is definitely not noticeable that a lot of residents are getting tested and some bits part of the, an aggressive context, tracing measures here of the authorities. barbara and chris where he'd be doing

a thank you so much for bringing us that update. the 0 covered approach has also been adopted both qualities in taiwan. there are strict rules on entry into the ireland with mandatory quarantine and testing for some it has meant being away from family for the longest times. oh, so child spends most of her time alone with her new born because her husband is a pilot. he must quarantine for 5 days in a hotel and 9 days at home, every time he lands, despite being fully vaccinated, all household responsibilities fall on alice's showed us. doesn't fancy. i'm practically a single mom because my husband is always absent. can you tell her? i'm always worried that if something urgent comes up, no one can give me a hand. it's also unfair to our son because he doesn't have a bonding with his father. michael, who is currently hotel, is just 20 minutes away from home,

but he can only communicate with his family by phone. in the past year, he has almost always been either up in the air, flying long hall flights or in isolation. he was absent from all his wife's pregnancy, checkups before the birth of their son, now his missing out on the growth of his new born. hi josephs is sole goal. i was confined for 190 days the past year. it's unbelievable that we've done nothing wrong on itself, but we're treated like prison middle school just because we've been out of the country. the government thinks we're the dirtiest group and have to look us up mentally. i've been down in the dumps she is on her. during the early days of the pandemic, taiwan was praised globally for his prompt decision to close bodice and imposed 14 day quarantines on all arrivals that has kept cases down to less than $20000.00 and does below full figure so far. but the south route island may be a victim of his early success. as the world reopens taiwan struggles to exit tesero

cove as strategy. despite the 2 dos vaccination rate, reaching 74 percent health express. se people in taiwan have had a 0 covert mentality for too long. that's a low tolerance in any outbreak. and with local election assuming at the end of this year, the government is seen to have the incentive to open up. as a public opinion continues to highlight a danger of the firas with the c ro cove, it mindset every case is treated to like a grave threat to public health and that he sees carries a stigma. i was a chance that people with travel history, especially air crews, are labeled as potential infection control breaches. cleaning, says eagle motion, 0 cove. it is a dream to achieve that. we have sacrificed a lot, including the well being of us air crews. how may i help the government will relax the rule soon until your full guy set. but she might have to wait longer. the 30 year into the pandemic. there's still no sign of border reopening or relaxation of

cov, it rears. and joining me now for more is professor ruby clung at the school of medicine at the nasty invest he at the national taiwan university. my apologies, he drives me now from a single professor class you have said in the past the time on should look towards exiting. it's 0 corporate approach. why do you say that? it's all about whether a good strategy could be sustainable and we see that the pin dummy has stretched more beyond 2 years. we're in the 3rd year now. so you know, any stringent measures probably, you know, people got exhausted. so you have to seek a balance for sustainable strategy to control the pandemic versus to ensure normal activities normal life could be. so stay in the society, but isn't that a case professor trying to be made for you to go over the approach? i mean it's, it's a start of the pandemic. for instance,

the u. s. has registered more than 880000 debts while in china, it's less than 5000 people. and in taiwan, less than $900.00 people have died. yes, exactly. so if we look at the mortality, it is indeed that helen has done, you know, amazingly well in this regard. but for the recent outbreak, dad, from the only cong variant, we see that, you know, the vars has reached through the airport, which is the 1st line of defense. so imagining that you know, for the de, from lying at the airport at the border, they have experienced this exhaustion after 2 and a half years of ours, stringent border control. so you have to think, you know, how can the entire society to move forward to seek you know, the balance of between us is tight stringent measures while keeping our

health care facilities afloat, not overburden and still keep the mortality rate low. exactly. so professor font, does that explain why other countries like singapore new zealand, for instance, who had followed the 0 covert approach for quite some time, have not abandoned it in favor of increased vaccinations? exactly, i think it's all about timing. now. the vaccination coverage rate in the population insane or new zealand and even in taiwan for the 2 doses have reached to up to 80 percent, even 90 percent. and we're in the 3rd booster dose, a ready and the other timing for we have medication for, for, to treat cobit and then for on the con, the very end to transmit ability is so fast. so you would imagine that, you know, for any a meticulous contact tracing would be effortless. what would the ephra would be of

food child? so oh, we really need to seek a how to move on to actually seek to balance, you know, people and on the tray. sions won't be exhausted. and you can still have the health care system and functional and people's kids still live normal social life. do you see that thunder thinking the kinder for exit strategy as it were? are being discussed in taiwan at least? yes, i think so, because you can tell it's all about mentality huck. we are in a chinese new year lou, the new year a period. so people realized that to have a tight control not be able to gather was friends, family is too much to bear. so on for the border control, you have family overseas, not being able to enter the border. to rejoinder, family again was too much to bear. so i think, you know, people are changing the mentality and the does,

the policy is getting adjusted gradually because i think the government is still pretty cautious about getting the health care institution being overloaded. right. we leave, therefore, that on me, but thank you so much for joining us today. professor ruby horn from the national taiwan university. thank you for having me and that's it for today. there's a cause some more on our website, d, deborah dot gov forward slash asia, and as ever you can follow us on facebook and twitter. we leave you with the images of preparations for luna new. yeah, in the region, starting in cambodia, tuesday rings in the yard of the ty got with you here tomorrow for by

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