oh, my god, my license to work as a swimming instructor here and a chanel. i teach children who don't to swim desktop. what's your story? take part. share it on info, migrants dot net. ah 57 years aisha coming up to date. gov at 19 cases, sufficient beijing, putting the city on high alert. pathologies launch mos testing to try and stamp out infections. but residents fear it's only a matter of time before china's 0 covert policy brings life, as they know it. to a halt and medical drug or dangerous claim badging has been pushing traditional chinese medicine for treatment of gov 19th. what does it really work? ah

i british benji welcome to dw news, aisha. glad you could join us. beijing has ordered moss grown about his testing for nearly all of its 21000000 residents. only 70 cases have been found in china's capital since last friday. beijing health authorities insist the vidas can still be brought under control. but the testing order has sparked panic. buying of food and other basics of affairs for shanghai style locked on. still a beijing residents willing to speak on camera. i believe a varsity is prepared. i don't think there's anything to worry about it. but the news yesterday said there lot of vegetables and the supplies will last for 30 days . so i'm not worried at all. yeah, no, wait, i wanted home. so what my old colleague is in shanghai hutcher. so young we had difficulties because for locked down came as a surprise. all sorts of preparations went in place. why you saw did you have such

a big problem in beijing with our now long quiver? yup. which was out there with all the data. everyone just needs to sit tight. cloudy, i believe his day will pass. i'm confident i already got. she's here i for meal, meal thump, thump. joining me now from beijing, a jealous fabi on a crutch. my far beyond the mood appears to have drastically changed in beijing just within this past week. yeah, actually only within a couple of days, i mean the authorities have detected an infection cluster and set it spread unidentified for roughly a week before one the case was linked to a trouble group. one other case was linked to a school. and since then, we've basically went into a mass testing, as you can see behind me there, lots of those testing stations, and each of them basically and yet conducts thousands and thousands of pc artists every day. and yet

a mood i would say among the people we strike to stay upbeat when i talk to residency, try to stay outdoors as much as possible because of course, we are fearing a possible potential locked down m many have stockpiled a food. actually, every one that i know have you bought, you know, can vegetables a lot of rice, et cetera, to be prepared. and some have even bought a new fries, us and fridge us. because that's the key. you have to store as much food as possible when it comes to a lockdown. i mean, just the basics of love, isn't it? but her father and besides a mandatory testing how it all parties planning to curve this liter surgeon infections. yeah, i mean the mass testing is the 1st step and also we are discouraged from, you know, gathering and um, you know, big facilities have been shut, but then the next step is already the lockdown. and even though the authorities will not name it, i mean it's already happening. um,

today of already visited several residential compounds who have been sealed off. and when i say residential compound, i'm talking about 10000 residents living there. sometimes even more, and they cannot leave em, they are m complex. so am it's starting and the question is only how extensive the lockdown will be. and m, how long it will last. so there's a am critical point of no return. and when that has been reached, then basically a city wide locked on has to be implemented because what, what we know for sure is the authorities will stick to the 0 covert approach. they've made it more than clear. so they really want to contain everything. they basically want to eradicate the virus out of the city. are people in building of certainly seen the visuals coming out of shanghai of beijing. us confident that if it came to title measures, the government will be able to manage situation well, especially in beijing, as well as in shanghai, i'm some are really quite skeptical. i mean,

i would say it's pretty much split $5050.00 m. some would say it's better to open up and, you know, get the vaccination rates high and focus on that. but you know, some are also confident that it might work because in the past it has worked. i mean, in a change. and for example, that they have and post a city wide lockdown, and after 7 days, they opened up again. however, am what we seeing in shanghai is really not very encouraging. and but, you know, you have to also see that the leading of our ologist, the leading health expert, he a drug luncheon. he has recently published an academic publication where he said that we cannot keep forever ours. he recovered policy and even debt publication has been censored. here in charge, so that gives you an idea how sensitive that question is and also that the authorities don't want an open debate about the question i've been crestwood engaging. thanks so much for that update. and father in is also monitoring the situation in shanghai. your authorities have gone out of their way to distribute millions of capsules of

a drug. the claim helps in the treatment of covered 19 young watching. when is a traditional chinese medicine capsule that has been backed by the government as an important drug in the fight against covert 19 scientific evidence is still inconclusive. on the effectiveness of such treatments. and now there is outrage over their distribution in a city where many residents don't have access to food. it's not the 1st time traditional chinese medicine or t. c. m. has been used in china's battle against coven 19, but its distribution among people and shanghai has been unprecedented. millions of purchase of the homeopathic capsule, young watching, one were handed out to people under locked down this month. so its song says she and her 4 fled maids received 6 boxes. i actually, we don't take it because i from the social media i that i follow. it's not for like hearing your symptoms. it's not preventing you from

that. kobe sounds either young ha, ching once ingredients include honeysuckle, licorice, rude, and other herbs. tcm practitioner say it can help suppress fever and sore throat, but health experts, one, it's not an alternative to vaccines. doctors also say people shouldn't take the medicine unless they feel unwell. it's known to cause serious side effects, including kidney and liver disease. the leading chinese neurologist recently hit out at the promotion of leon watching when he questioned wyatt received delivery priority and shanghai. when many people under locked down were struggling with access to food. we think that and she is not much more on the basic nice for the people. reports have also linked china's health don, luncheon with the maker of the pill, eeling pharmaceutical john guides chinas cove at 19 policy. as head of the national

health commission. he said to have received funding from ealing for his own medical foundation and also signed a corporation agreement with the company. but beijing's also strongly back the t. c . m. industry worth some 60000000000 a year, according to the world health organization. the promotion of this, this kind of medical market is something that certainly being encouraged, the idea being that if the, if this industry can be developed to a certain level of maturity, where are some very highly effective drugs are developed? ah, ah, then you know, these, these can become part of the more mainstream mix of different types of treatments, not only domestically, but also internationally. the debate over the use of t. c. m, has even taken on the nationalistic tone. people criticizing it, have been accused of betraying china politics. he has seemed to once again be trumping scientific efforts to beat cove at 19 and joining me now for more is

professor paul all recall on shore. he's director of the institute of chinese life sciences at shoddy tay when he resonates mid seen berlin. it's one of germany's most renowned and respected medical universities. and for years professor control has also been translating into english, the ancient text and chinese traditional medicine. the bun sagamore professor on shoulders, capsules of 1000000000 watching when prepared using traditional chinese medicine. ingredients have been distributed to people in lockdown in shanghai and elsewhere in your experience. sir cam, traditional chinese medicine treat go with 19 that's a good question and we have just launched a research project to find out more about this. of course, in china, you have countless experts in what we call historical chinese medicine. historical

chinese medicine means inc. this is a nice that includes more than the so called tcn own in west some countries. now, historically, chinese medicine is based on the observations of countless healer practitioners, physicians claim, and who put down their knowledge in writing seems 2000 years. and now, still, you have many experts in china who turn to these ancient forces outside of what is modern pcm and tried to find out remedies, recipes, individual, or substances that might be helpful. and they are quite successful in that. and they are very many who your traditional recipes to, to cope with what we consider the symptoms of long corporate. colbert

19 itself cannot be treated by a tcm. and the chinese are very clever in combining, more than western techniques, therapeutic techniques and approaches with traditional approaches. and again, i just ended up to the, i mean, other really clever. i mean, the reason i'm asking this is because official chinese government bodies have claimed that traditional chinese medicine is what they're saying is effective in treatment of nevada. for example, in 2020 china national health commission issued a notice, asking hospitals to actively promote dcm during treatment of court on about us. then you also had the state administration of traditional chinese medicine in 2020 reportedly saying that the young watching when, for example, was gord, effective in treating infection? i mean candidate the difference between treating infection and coping with symptoms

arising out of infection, right? yeah, of course, that's the difference. and i mean, when i talk to chinese experts and also to chinese practitioners or who are knowledgeable in both western medicine and traditional chinese medicine, they always assert me. the basic treatment must be based on lot of west on bio medicine. and tcm is an adjunct. i mean, it helps you to overcome many of the symptoms that go along with a cold bit 19 infection and especially with 19 up the amount that is what we call long cove. it is a disease, right? but i have not heard of anyone, seriously claiming that p c m is helpful, while health may be yes, but pcm is certainly not effective as

a solar approach to cope with 90 or long co big. right. we leave it there for the timing, but thank you so much for expanding the difference that professor controlled from shot. thank you so much and that's our program for today. that is more on our website as i'm going to see you here tomorrow, with if you ever have to cover up a murder, the best way is to make it look like an accident, raring to me. you've never read a book like this. literature list in germany must reads ah, the green ah, do you feel worried about the planet we to i'm kneel, host of the,

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