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China has been signalling a shift in its covid stance as it moves to ease some virus restrictions, despite high daily case numbers. although this stops well short of a complete re—opening, it is being seen as a sign that officials have abandoned the idea of trying to reduce each outbreak to zero new infections. the changes come in the wake of street protests in many cities with residents calling for an end to the policy of zero covid. our china correspondent stephen mcdonell reports. beijings ...

Where macro few questions tonight about the latest health development. first, what is strep a? its full name is streptococcal, it spread by close contact and people may not know they have it. what are the symptoms? often they are mild, a sore throat or skin infection, easily treated if necessary with antibiotics. and how dangerous is it? well, strep a can cause scarlet fever, mostly affecting young children with flu—like symptoms and rashes like these. case numbers are higher than usual for th...

Orders, travel bans and phone apps tracking peoples movements. entire cities are sometimes officially locked down yet covid—19 continues to spread. the country posted record new case numbers over the past five days in a row. last month, the countrys leader, xijinping, said thered be no swerving from the current approach, as he entered a historic third term in power. now protesters in the south—western city of chengdu are blaming him personally for allowing the covid crisis to continue. theyv...

Translation: we want freedom, not unlimited government power. | we want the rule of law. we dont want the next generation to live in this era of horror. zero—covid in china has meant trying to return each outbreak to zero infections, using strict stay—at—home orders, travel bans and phone apps tracking peoples movements. entire cities are sometimes officially locked down or effectively closed with businesses shut. yet covid—19 continues to spread. the country posted record new case numbe...

But dissatisfaction with the governments handling of the crisis is also spilling over into calls for press freedom and democracy. translation: we want freedom, not unlimited government power. | we want the rule of law. we dont want the next generation to live in this era of horror. zero—covid in china has meant trying to return each outbreak to zero infections, using strict stay—at—home orders, travel bans and phone apps tracking peoples movements. entire cities are sometimes officially lo...

The next generation to live in this era of horror. zero—covid in china has meant trying to return each outbreak to zero infections, using strict stay—at—home orders, travel bans and phone apps tracking peoples movements. entire cities are sometimes officially locked down or effectively closed with businesses shut. yet covid—19 continues to spread. the country posted record new case numbers over the past five days in a row. last month, the countrys leader, xijinping, said thered be no swe...

Lived under this three-year seemingly never ending lockdown. there are some carrots, we heard from chinas national health commission today and they said they are going to speed up the vaccination of elderly people, which is really an acknowledgment of something weve known for a long time, that chinas vaccination program is a lot slower than the rest of the world and part of the reason the chinese government has clung so strongly to this zero covid policy is they know if they ease the lockdown, i...

Genera generation. >> a new report commissioned by the department of health and human services is encouraging people to wear masks and social distance to protect from possible long covid. this as los angeles county once again recommends masking up while indoors to combat spiking case numbers. christina coleman is following this for us, to you. >> under c.d.c. guidance weekly rate of 100 more or covid cases for every 100,000 residents is considered a high rate of transmission and we passed that m...

And 11 variants, which are probably more transmissible and can evade vaccination. i would expect we would see an increase in cases with people gathering indoors like this. the big dwquestion is will our level of vaccination keep the people hospitalized and dying with covid steady. if we can keep the hospital beds open for people with other conditions, we might be able to get through this patch. >> how clear will the picture be considering that a lot of people are relying on at-home testing now. ...

♪ (wings flapping) ♪ ♪ reporter: the cdc is mobilizing teams right now in an urgent effort to head off a newly identified deadly virus from china. president trump: you call it a germ. you can call it a flu. you can call it a virus. you know you can call it many different names. im not sure anybody even knows what it is. reporter: the corona virus has now been detected in at least 48 different countries, with case numbers rising rapidly. reporter: the coronavirus has altered daily life acro...