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change can be very hard to storage. this is my plan, the way from just one week. how much was going to really get we still have time to act. i'm going with the dublin years aisha coming up to date, hong kong loosens cobra, restrictions off to full months. people that are among some of the places hong kong residents can visit again the pursuit of 0 corporate cases have left a stringent restrictions across the city. so how are residents reacting? correspondent, the force and easing of some restrictions to ensuring guy, another chinese city. bearing the bronze of the pseudo covert strategy,

but is the government determines to stay the course. and in the program, fortune telling what the digital age, how traditional high astrology is reaching hundreds of thousands of young people through apps. ah, i british energy, welcome to the dublin, use asia. glad you could join us for the 1st time in 4 months. residents of hong kong have something to look forward to in that global league city, james beauty parlors, theme parks, and cinemas have reopened. people can dining restaurants to 10 pm, 4 hours longer than the 6 pm cut off. some schools have also resumed in person teaching. it's part of a relaxed ation of covered restrictions that have been one of the toughest, anywhere in the world. it's been prompted by

a fallen daily covey cases to below 1000 from high more than 70000 in march. and in the middle of it all has been d. deborah correspondent, phoebe gong, who joins me now from hong kong. phoebe going to cinemas of visiting a beauty parlor things that hong kong residents haven't been able to do for about 4 months now. talk to us a bit about how people are reacting today. but definitely we can feel us friends self excitement and leave i on the ground in hong kong. here today as like, various venues are allowed to be opened, including a rec raye chanel as sports and entertainment facilities like a cinema's and so on. and the restaurants can resume our dining services, our 14, as our, as that the number of people her table can be raised from 2 to 4. right? now i'm so like as it's really hard to gather seat or like 14,

i'm in hong kong for any popular or even just average restaurants as my friends and i try to make a reservation. but like many of the restaurants happen fully booked for the coming weeks or even months. so you can feel like a sense of lay popularity and how people are excited to go out and dine out again and gather with their friends. and we also seen pictures of parents all who cant way to bring the children to a theme park flight this deal. and even though today's a whacking bay, so although there are still some sort of kind of limits, like this kind of values has to subject to limits on capacity and fact seem pasta, policy, a mosque, his steel, compulsory every way in hong kong. but still, from what we have seen today, these kind, the constraints is not stopping people from going out or even to just to have some fresh air. however, these are covered restrictions have been in pursuit essentially of be jigs 0 corporate strategy. which aims to isolate people to break off infection trains. i

wonder what the cost of all of this has been to hong kong while the faced wife of code it in sections is not only that lee for it at the human lives in hong kong, but also people's lately who is especially on the businesses and no matter, it's more effect businesses, us or hot hit during daylight, his wife out in of our infections, that according to the office showed i'd just released today on that. the unemployment rate has to search to 5 percent, which has the highest fake goes in 9 months. and or so is or so like, affecting public services like for example, today we've seen people lining up on like long queues as seen outside government department for like people are rushing to renew their trifling license. that's because such public cephas has happened heavily in print are interrupted 3rd of hosp months. so hong kong has become like kind of fly lashley on functional like

joined a faith wave of infection and essentially because of the seo cove at policy that has put to city are in a standstill. and it's also scaring of foreign talents that we have seen like the most, sophia, brain drain offline for and talents during the 5th wife off the infection that a lot sub expect. your years i have left the city because of the border closure and, and the various jenkins alger county and meshes that such damage has been done and people fear that that could be a permanent permanent. so given what you're saying, what is the government plan moving forward? well on the government is still alike remaining pretty cautious about the, the, the, the, the feature of the and also the situation of the infection. although to day many meshes helping relax. but basically where it was just getting back to the status before to faith, wave of infections, it is still like one of the most jenkins, ah,

like an imposed city around a well that, and especially many people concerning that. the government is not laying out a road map, lie for them to, let's see. like last you know, and in site like to and to see a copay policy and, and as long as spacing is taken, where they, it's, it's not their life that hong kong can make a detour. phoebe going reliever there for that. i mean, well, thank you so much for doctor roster. and as a phoebe was just saying hong kong 0 corporate policy hasn't just taken a toll on human beings. it's also having a huge impact on the embodiment here's why. ah, from the moment you step off the plane in hong kong, there's people wearing plastic everywhere you look i and once you've collected your luggage and are taken to a quarantine hotel, there's even more plastic or the kind of services that typically would touch your

hands like let's say, you know the child and everything's been santa fe wrapped. every single one of the staff members here was full p. you know the gowns, the glass, the teeth, the hats, and not every staff member. and on every show, this, the toiletries provided by the hotel come double wrapped in plastic, and the food is also no exception. the meals arrive 3 times a day, so morning lunch, dinner. and they are all an provided in a plastic bag, which begs the question, what to do with all that extra plastic waste generated by the pandemic. much of it ends up in one of 3 municipal landfills. although hong kong is one of the world's richest cities and one without much space, little of its waste is recycled. the posse oh fall recycling weight.

far crisig ah scrap. it's about 11 percent only to the small percentage. and so to worth nearly 90 percent of your plastic weight is eda and not be in our own. feels or you end up being a later environmental activists say that governments, quarantine policies make the cities waste problem even worse, and that more items should be reused or recycled people. and they thing here quantity hotels here and not confirmed cases. so what they have used to flight and the normal process, etc, as if the plastic waste weren't enough. hong kong is also rushing to build temporary isolation centers and waterfront property. critics say the units have no long term use and will eventually also wind up as garbage. so that's hong kong,

but what is happening on the chinese mainland? as you've been reporting the situation in shanghai has been especially difficult with as many as 25000000 people confined to their homes. since the start of april, were starting to see some easing there with residents in certain districts allowed out. but for now, most cubs appear set to remain in place as infections outside of quarantined areas . rise again. correspondent, i've been crushed. my who's based in beijing has more on how authorities are handling the crisis. there are new hopes that the ongoing lockdown in shanghai might slowly come to an end. for the 1st time, 2 districts have announced that there are no new daily symptomatic cases. that means it several 1000000 residents. by now, i at least able to go outside and walk on the street. however, the city is still far from being norma. most residents are still locked in sight the apartments. and even if you allow to go outside,

there's really not much what you can do with most facilities being shut down. and for some residents, the suffering continues. on social media. there are new shocking videos posted every day. for example, about an elderly woman. she's over 90 years old and because she tested positive but didn't show any symptoms, still help workers forced away into her apartment and direct her against her will into an isolation center outside of the city. it's clear that the chinese leadership of stick to there is 0 covert approach. a stately does, sheeting ping has a recently announced it. more heart effort is needed to fight the pandemic. what it means is quite clear, even if the outbreak in shanghai can be brought under control, it means that it's only a matter of time until the next lockdown will be imposed. for the economy, there will be ongoing downward pressure. and also the already huge isolation of the

country will further deepen, according to estimates by the european chamber of commerce, half of the rear european residents. he and china have left the country since the pandemic began. and it's estimated that over the course of the summer, among the remaining people in other half, will also move out ah, to thailand next, which has a long tradition of astrology as follows. us predict the future provided by some guidance to those who wanted. and now in keeping with changing times, it has gone online and digital that was going shuffling the cards before revealing what they say about the future. astrology has long been a part of tie culture. and now fortune telling has gone online. a new app with nearly half a 1000000 users is geared to the younger generation. one student who says he didn't

previously believe in the supernatural now follows fortune tellers advice. i listen back occasion. so i said these wall k o and i phone. so that every thing that a space, because more the whole fortune tellers say they'd noticed a change in customers priorities over the past couple years. oh, that there are more people looking for career advice. now think i know before the pandemic, it was mostly about love and relationships. but since the pandemic i've had twice as many questions about careers coming, psychologists acknowledge that stress levels are high and people need someone to listen. but caution against relying on fortune tellers. why can he to me hate having someone help relieve your anxiety? is only mental 1st aid. now ha, the young name, it could jeopardize your ability to make decisions for yourself in the long term.

the, the ups managers, as young people already know how to get the answers they need from the internet. and that fortune telling is one way of trying to find peace of mind when it comes to life's uncertainties. and that's it, sort of, it is more on our website and on facebook and twitter, we're back again tomorrow. at the same time, we'll see you. then the bar is the end of the pandemic in site. we show what it could look like will return to normal. and we visit those who are finding it difficult with successes in our weekly coven 19 special cove with 9 special next on

d. w. a global ideas is on its way to bring you more conservation. how do we make cities greener? how can we protect habitats? we can make a difference. global ideas, environmental series in global 3000 on d, w, and online. ah . just how many people are currently affected by coven 19? can be estimated by the incidents or the daily number of new infections, or by the number of empty i see you beds. since the pandemic began numbers have become more important than ever. and they're the focus of this coven special. we also take a look at how the amount of vaccine has varied across the globe and how china is.