professor yanzhong huang, thank you for - cases. ning cases. professor yanzhong - huang, thank you forjoining us on the programme with your thoughts. on the programme with your thoughts-— the british artist sonia boyce has won the top prize, the golden lion at the venice art bionnale. her work looks at the contribution of black british female musicians to british culture. katie razzall met sonia boyce in venice. the british pavilion at the venice art biennale has been transformed to the sound of five black female musicians. it's a hugely noisy, but hopefullyjoyously noisy, experience. sonia boyce's work here, called feeling her way, is the latest stage in a wider project that tells the stories of black women singers and musicians. you are the first black female artist to ever represent britain. i wonder what you feel about that. i mean, of course it's an enormous accolade. but i also think, why has it taken so long? i mean, there are so many brilliant british female black artists out there. it should have happened before now. it's he

earlier i spoke to professor yanzhong huang, senior fellow for global health at the council on foreignn is in china right now. if you just look at the cases, the absolute number remains lower compared with the number in the west, but if you look at the increase of the cases, it is clearly the largest outbreak since the wuhan lockdown. the number of cases are many times more than that in wuhan. and in the meantime, the government consider the worst—case scenario is going to happen if china chooses to coexist with the virus. so it also believes this is a very serious and grim situation, given the rapid spread of the virus in the country. professor, what is the worst—case situation, given the rising number of covid infections in china? and can the government stop the spread of the 0micron virus, given what we know about how contagious it is? well, what they define as worst—case scenario after opening up, is that there is a rapid nationwide spread of the virus, a surge of cases overwhelming the country's healthcare system. there will be fewer healthcare personnel available to treat the inf

yanzhong huang is a senior fellow for global health at the council on foreign relations. >> china wasy successful by using the zero covid strategin containing the spread of the virus, shielding the chinese population from the virus. but it was precisely the success of that strategy only a very small percentage of the population actually exposed to the virus. but now, when you have a variant that is so highly transmissible with short incubation period and also you recover relatively quickly. right? so, you know, pretty much that makes it almost impossible to not just detect all the cases, but also to track and trace those contacts, >> starting today in phase 2, residents west of the huangpu river will not be able to leave home for five days, and deliveries will be left at checkpoints. nonessential business and public transportation will also be shut down. earlier in the week, the government converted shanghai's convention centeinto a makeshift hospital to house patients, with 6,000 available beds. nationwide, china's uptick in cases had been driven by an outbreak in jilin province. loc

nick: yanzhong huang is the council on foreign relations' seor fellow for global health. >> when ther himself, is personally invested in the policy, that policy u-turn could undermine his personal leadership and even cause him problems for regime legitimacy. nick: beijing is also worried about its health care system being overrun. but covid restrictions limit shanghai hospitals' ability to provide regular health care. and social media is full of videos of patients rejected care. pleas to health care workers ignored. and a desperate family for whom health care was kept out of reach. [shouting] nick: yesterday, a man yelled at visiting officials, there wasn't enough to eat. he was later detained. the restrictions in rich, educated shanghai threaten to create the very political instability officials are trying to prevent, says university of toronto professor lynette ong. >> once people start questioning that, they would show some sort of resistance either overtly or covertly. and that in itself may actually evolve into another source of social unrest. nickbut authorities appear unmoved