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i'm british manager, welcome to the, the other news. a shared ledger could join us. the end of china 0 corporate policy has become the start of an explosion anchored on about his cases. and under vaccinated population with low natural immunity. and a loosening of restrictions has led to scenes in china. the rest of the world has long put behind it scenes like these overcrowded hospitals with patient 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 curbs and corresponding fagen, petrified joints be now from bay jane with an update fabia and what is it like in

beaching currently? yeah, actually was in china baiting seems to be ahead of the curve ahead of the developments . that means 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 enormous state. no. and it's still very difficult to m a, for example, ot fever medicine or even get our self tests to test at home that through difficult . and if you just look at the funeral haunts and also the crim atoria. 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 that day by day. that means we are slowly getting back to normal. i'm,

it's 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 cobit 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 covert death and made them much more stricter. so basically now we have just a very, very little amount of am co deaf, 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 em, doctors work and figure 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 from around 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 back into the office. 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 trend. 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 career positive people at the start of the panoramic. and now many uses are actually using this

emoji to tease themselves. i guess maybe it's a way to keep a sense of humor during really, really tough times. now, a lot of internet users say they've seen people clearing up and standing in long lines to hoard test kids, and paint 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 are seem to be struggling to get treated. a video has been circulating online, 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 that those who want to china to end the 0 cove in policy and say that

people are now equally unhappy just as before. and now this 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 from me. journeyman offers on the epidemic. logical context is eric fargo doing. he's an epidemiologist and co founder of the world. harold smith, berkeley johnson, are from washington dc. it's 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 is gonna likely be the largest search we have seen. but china, which has version field, the 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 try this very large number and in terms of deaths were easily, might see 1000000 if not 2, in depth. 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, the medication 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 that 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 cast you quite a while and you 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 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 one message you know, try to playing down

a lot of the exposure cases. they say we have few death, meda 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 rep 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 resisted 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 beds and building more fever clinics. and also cheap up in the, in the all, just word that the worst yet to come. they know what i mean, but the issue is will they have the, you know, 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 that 0 cobit is not equal to lock them because they're in south korea and 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 thing the primary back in the current back me by final back and final far those vaccines, if you line up in trying to find, typically for their neutralization, can build our rank at the bottom the list in terms are the weakest back feasible names. they have not updated them from the original by 13 version to the you know, the caught up be by a very, that, you know, by the majority in terms of the, by a balance version. they haven't updated, but those have other vaccines such as that inhale coastal back is that the nebulizer era you inhale, that are getting an injection. that one, they're just starting the roll out. it's very promising because you call back you have the ability to increase your protection get infection. and the key here is

for 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 a story that will 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. it's you then goodbye. ah, how much does kofi hon, the environment? these pioneers know that quite well, and that's why they're taking a different approach. they cultivate old farming, taking revive forgotten plant species,

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