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ah, i'm british manager, welcome to the dublin news. a shark ledger could join us. the end of china 0 corporate policy has become the start of an explosion and couldn't about his case is an under vaccinated population with low natural immunity. and lose thing of restrictions has led to scenes in china. the rest of the world has long put behind it scenes like these overcrowded hospitals with patients seeking help pharmacies running out of cold and flu medication, and long queues at crematorium. these estimates up to 2000000 people, good die in china due to the sudden loosening of cove it cubs and corresponding fog and catch by joins me now from bay jane with an update fabia

and what is it like in beijing currently? yeah, actually was in china, beijing seems to be ahead of the curve ahead of the developments that means are here, the 1st big are covered wave of armor kron seems to be peaking already or we can see public life coming back into the city a day by day um, the traffic is picking up are the morning subways are filling up again. even some restaurants and bars are opening up again. but don't get me wrong. that doesn't mean that we are here at a normal state. no. and it's still very difficult to m a, for example, order fever medicine or even get our self tests to test at home. that's really difficult. and if you just look at the funeral haunts and also the crematorium, and basically there are long queues in front of them. and you can see that it's really a big stress test. but the number of people who are recovering is also growing the day by day. that means we are slowly getting back to normal amidst all of this

program, does the government even have an accurate picture of the scale of the crisis facing the country? well that the fact that we don't have reliable government information any more about a cobra theft is a deliberate choice. let me emphasize it. because just when the 1st wave exploded here in china, the government decided to change the criteria of what constitutes a corporate death. it made them much more stricter. so basically now we have just a very, very little amount of am colbert deaths, which is really not credible. and, and of course, if you want to see what's happening here, and i think the government is, of course willing to see it, then it's easy. you just need to talk to m doctor's work and fever clinics. you need to look at the funeral homes who are working at 247. and that's really quite obvious. so yes, you can have an accurate picture if you want to see it for been very briefly, will things get worse before the good, better?

yeah, most likely here public health experts are predicting 3 winter waves or so the 1st one we're seeing right now in the big cities. the 2nd one will happen in mid january during the lunar new year, trouble season. and then until mid march, there will be a 30 day wave by people coming back to the city and bringing the virus, beckoned to the officers. so it will be a harsh and long pandemic winter reliever there. thanks so much for joining us today. i've been crisper from bridging concern is also reflected in the online conversations. people are having in china. did up the news, a short report, a hung trim. lee has been monitoring all of that for us. shares her update. yes. hi, brush assembly. we're starting to see across the chinese internet again are sheep, emoji. it's because the word sheep young has the same pronounciation as positive in measuring. people have been using this to actually joke about colored positive

people at the start of the panoramic. and now many uses are actually using this emoji to tease themselves. i guess maybe that is a way to keep a sense of humor during really, really tough times. now a lot of internet uses say they've seen people clearing up and standing in long lines to hoard test kids and pink, coolest, such as ibuprofen and with medicines. now extremely difficult to buy. some are even turning to yellow. can't peaches because it's rumored to be effective in fighting against infections and others seem to be struggling to get treated. a video has been circulating online and showing a nurse and a father kneeling to each other. the father is bagging his child to be treated quickly and but the nurse can do anything about it. now this video can be verified for now that it has attracted lots of reactions and comments. some people have criticized for those who want to china to end the 0 covered policy,

and say that people are now equally unhappy just as before. and others blamed the chinese government for opening up too quickly without having enough preparation. but i post from did of a new venture to bottle hung friendly gentlemen offers on the epidemic. logical context is eric fargo doing. he is an epidemiologist and the co founder of the world. harold smith, berkeley johnson, are from washington d. c. eric and explosion and cases in china. how water should the rest of the world b? yeah, the explosion cases i think, should worry the higher worlds because the search is not going to be a small, temporary search. this search gonna likely be the largest search we ever seen. but china, which has version fields of many uninfected people and under vaccinated people will

suffer the largest consequence. but indirectly, the rest of the world will as well we're talking about 60 percent of china are more impacted on the next 3 months. you know, 60 percent of china is very large number and in terms of deaths were easily, might see 1000000 if not 2000000 deaths. if china doesn't do in terms of chain the course and trajectory. and in terms of shortages, there's already shortages of pain medicine, right? and as we know we are, we are also suffering shortages of children, pain medication and being from allocation in the us and canada and europe as well. so in terms of supply chain, this could also disrupt the global supply chain for many medicine, many consumer products. so i think the ripple fights are going to be large. and the chief knowledge is the china has just recently said worsted yet. this is going to

be potentially 3 waves back to back at this initial wave. and then the lunar holiday wave at the end of january. we'll kaski it will kathy for quite a while and we will be in a world of hurt for the next few months. speaking about this world, are you looking at potentially deadly mutations emerging? the reason i ask is because china has itself played down the possibility of deadly and highly infectious mutations emerging from these waves. should we take those assurances at face value? well, i think we should take china's actions. you know, one thing china actually said is that it will ramp surveillance testing for very, the genome sequencing for variance and across all chinese cities. i think you should always look at what they're actually doing. so just what they're saying,

but there's lot messages, you know, trying to playing down a lot of the exposure cases. they say we have few debt, they're not made there, but you don't need to have depth reports to see the overload crematorium. they're absences that work from people who are sick. there's inter media cruise in which they couldn't actually post an interview because most of their team is sick like these. these things are not just random observation. and then, you know, famous opera singers and b gene dying at the age of 40, whatever you see those kind of things happening. you know that there's a lot of depth. and when you see the child wrap ramping up surveillance, i think there's going to be no, we know that there's going to be a lot of variance that emerges when you a 100000000 people. in fact, it, within 3 months, you talk about judging china to china as actions. do you see any plan here for how

beijing intends to tackle these latest outbreaks? yeah, this is, that's the policy and political side. that's hard to say because they've resisted for a long time releasing mitigation, and now that they finally released it. if the reverse course also shows that they're making their meeting a mistake, but the same time not reverse. and of course, they know what comes like trying to know, even if they don't say, like, just by the sheer concern they're doing, we're ramping up stock or trying to also, you know, have more hospital bed and building more fever clinics. and also cheap opening the all just word that the worst he has to come. they know what i mean, but the issue is will they have the, you know, the, the humbleness to admit that they need to reverse course. the reopening wasn't like

a west or reopen, like a swedish approach. reopening, like halfway between that old chinese 0 versus western. but i want to emphasize a 0 cove. it is not equal to lock them because they're in south korean japan where you don't have locked down. so you have the premium mass for the one, conduct tracy ventilation. the air disinfection standards plus usage of boosters and, and, and better vaccines. but you know, whether or not china will admit that they need to either roll out by the back, which they have not yet or import vaccine. all of those things will be very telling in the, in the weeks account for any success getting the, the breaks under control. is it imperative that china essentially import western vaccines because the record so far on chinese made vaccines has been very patchy.

well, i think the issue is china is trying to have many back the primary back in the corona back me by final back and final for those vaccines. if you line up in trying to find typically for their neutralization and built, he's our rank at the bottom. the list in terms there does a week back feasible name. they have not updated them from the original hon. bye team version to the you know, the caught up be by a very, that, you know, by the majority in terms of the, by a valid version. they haven't updated, but those have other vaccines such as that inhaled back, is that the metalized arrows that you have that are getting an injection that one they're just saying? well, it's very promising because you call back, you have the ability to increase your protection get infection. and the key here

is prevention against infection and transmission because that will. busy definitely save more life. we leave it there for the timing, but thanks so much for joining us today. eric cycling. and this is assorted. if you'd be keeping an eye on here on deed of the news, you'll also find the latest on our website, d, w dot com, forward slash asia, and as ever, you can follow us on our facebook and twitter pages back again tomorrow at the same time and see you then goodbye. ah, every journey is full of surprises. we've gone all out. you've used them tim, one day and in the footsteps of the great hall. i'm in your northernmost count

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for returns. what happens to that unwanted gift when it goes back to the store? blowing welcome to the show. thousands of british ambulance drivers were expected to walk off the job wednesday, joining an estimated 10000 nurses who began striking the day before and adding to the unprecedented pressure on the british healthcare system. unions point out that record inflation has eaten into employ wages for nurses that's made an already difficult job, even harder. emily late, she was one of thousands of nurses in london who was going on strike for the 1st time in her life. her demands school way beyond ch, higher wages, and tired of coming into i can it being understaffed, you know, and got many colleagues or mental health is suffering. patients are suffering and i want to see a change is sent him and shared by her colleagues who've walked out of st. thomas hospital.