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aah? i british manager, welcome to d. w. news asia. glad you could join us. beijing has ordered mosque corona virus 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 virus can still be brought under control. but the testing order has sparked panic, buying of food and other basics over fears for shanghai style locked down. still abating residents, waiting to speak on camera. i believe a varsity is prepared for me. i don't think there's anything to worry about the news yesterday said there are lot of vegetables and the supplies will last for 30 days. so i'm not worried at all. yeah, that way everybody wanted home. so what my old colleague is in shanghai,

how to see on key had difficulties because the locked down came as a surprise. all sorts of preparations went in place. why you thought it might have such a big problem in beijing with our now long with idaho, everyone just needs to sit tight and i believe his day will pass. i'm confident i already got you 0 i for meal, meal thump, thump. joining me now from beijing, his jealous far beyond a crouch, my fabi on 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 and as you can see behind me, there are lots of those testing stations. and each of them basically m yeah,

conducts thousands and thousands of pc artists every day. and youtube mood, i would say among the people we tried to stay upbeat when i talked 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 into fridge us because that's the key. you have to store as much food as possible when it comes to are locked down and reduce the basics of flow, visited. but her father and besides a mandatory testing how it all parties planning to curve this liter surgeon infections. yeah, i mean the must 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 lock down. 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 a residence living there. sometimes even more, and they cannot leave em, they are and complex. so am it's starting and the question is only how extensive the locked on will be and m, how long it will last so there, so 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 that more than clear. so they really want to contain everything and they basically want to eradicate the virus out of the city. are people in building . i've certainly seen the visuals coming out of shanghai of beijing. us confident that if it came to title measures the government, we be able to manage the 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 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 of the 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 publications where he said that we cannot keep forever. i was the 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 in beijing. thanks so much for that update. and robin 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 coven 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 covered 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 covert 19, but it's distribution among people in shanghai has been unprecedented. millions of batches 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 got,

i follow. it's not for like hearing your symptoms. it's not preventing you from that co, a sound either young. what ching once ingredients include honeysuckle, licorice, rude, and other herbs, t c. m 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 neurologists recently hit out at the promotion of leon watching when he questioned why had received delivery priority in shanghai. when many people under locked on were struggling with access to food. we think that they are and then she is stuck. miss more on that basic nice for the people. reports have also linked china's health. don, luncheon with the maker of the pill. eeling pharmaceutical john guides,

china's coven 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 into 3 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 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 medicine, 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 on chinese, traditional medicine, the bun sagamore, professor on shoulder, 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, can traditional chinese medicine treat govig 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 i 90, includes more than the so called tcn and known in western countries. now, historically, chinese medicine is based on the observations of countless healer practitioners. physicians layman 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 tcm and tried to find out remedies, recipes, individuals, or substances that might be helpful and they are quite successful in that. and there are very many who your traditional recipes to,

to cope with what we consider the symptoms of a long corporate court. covert 19 itself cannot be treated by 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 bad clever. i mean, the reason i'm asking this is because the official chinese government bodies have claimed that traditional chinese medicine is what they're saying is effective in treatment of gro nevada's, for example, in 2020 china national health commission issued a notice, asking hospitals to actively promote dcm during treatment of go to know 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 or the difference between treating infection and coping with symptoms arising out of infection, right. of course, the difference. and i mean, when i talked to chinese experts and also to chinese practitioners or one knowledge of the in both western medicine and traditional chinese medicine, they always assert me. the basic treatment must be based on modern western biomedicine and tcm is an adjunct. i mean, it helps you to overcome many of the symptoms that go on with a cobit 19 infection, and especially with 19 aftermath. that is what we call long cobit illness or disease. but i have not heard of anyone seriously claiming that tcn is helpful. well helpful may be yes,

but tcm is certainly not effective as a sole approach to cope with the corporate 19 or long big right. we leave it there for the timing, but thank you so much for explaining the difference that professor told from shoddy to thank you so much and that's our program for today. that is more on our website as i can see you here tomorrow. but here it comes. the 1st truly electric mercedes. the key west is supposed to take the legendary as classes into the future. motorsport expert and by shelley did not good and wants to know who is the new mercedes a pioneer, or maybe even the best electric car in the world read.

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