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PETALING JAYA: A total of 499 Covid-19 cases were treated at intensive care units on Friday (Dec 3), says the Health Ministry.

To restrict the spread of a particular cluster. now, they are also doing mass testing. this, again, something that china has done repeatedly so, some 300,000 people are being tested to see just how widespread the community transmission is. but we really are seeing the zero covid policy and, of course, just a couple of months away from the beijing winter olympics, china is doing everything it can to make sure that these outbreaks do not spread. >> eleni giokos in johannesburg and paula hancocks i...

Essentially, never progresses that rapidly. this makes more sense. when you go back and look at that time line, we might re-visit this again, its a shocking time line. im glad you recovered. im glad your wife recovered. i hope thats true of everyone that came out of this cluster. i dont know if it is. thank you very much. >> sure. next, why the supply chain crisis may be a thing of the past possibly. we got back on track. whether it will last after this. . the ceos i met with this week repor...

With -- look, i want to be careful with our viewers. the caveat is she said she still wants to see how this is going to affect the vulnerable, how it is going to affect the elderly. i certainly dont want any narrative about this being no problem at all for everybody to take hold from the beginning because we dont know that. >> thats right. i mean, youre hearing an important voice, you know, in terms of someone who is taking care of patients on the ground. but we do know many of those initial pat...

>> david mackenzie, appreciate you being there in johannesburg, south africa. back with dr. gupta and wen. by the way, has spent time living and working in south africa. sanjay, as david was saying, the variant is now dominant in south africa even though it was only detected two weeks ago. um, when you hear from some doctors there that the symptoms have been mild, what should we take from that? because i mean, is it possible that if a mild virus is more transmissible, is that actually a bad thin...

Saying they are seeing less severe cases. but the early cluster outbreak of this surge was from a university. you know, so that lends itself already to less severe disease. >> so, what do we know about the medical community? i mean, about what they expect during this critical two-week period as the world is waiting to see how the various vaccines respond? >> well, this is the critical period. and earlier-this year, we were in a lab where they were trying to do just the same thing with the beta v...

Africa as we wait to assess how dangerous the omicron variant is, one of the early doctors there treating it says the cases she has seen, as i mentioned earlier, have been relatively mild. now, if that holds true, its certainly good news. but as we have been discussing, its really too soon to tell whether that pattern will hold or not over larger case numbers. sadly, with only about one in four south africans vaccinated, answers should come sooner there than here. cnns david mackenzie joins us n...

Living and working in south africa. sanjay, as david was saying, the variant is now dominant in south africa even though it was only detected two weeks ago. um, when you hear from some doctors there that the symptoms have been mild, what should we take from that? because i mean, is it possible that if a mild virus is more transmissible, is that actually a bad thing at all? i mean, if -- if it gets people -- if its more mild than something else and people get immunity or some level of immunity af...

Good evening. borisjohnson has announced new temporary coronavirus controls to come into effect in england from next week — after 2 cases of the highly—transmissible 0micron variant were discovered in the uk. the uk cases, in nottingham and brentwood in essex, are linked to travel in southern africa and are from the same cluster. borisjohnson said that, in response, face coverings will become mandatory again in shops and on public transport in england from next week. people whove been in clo...

Well bring you all the latest. in other news — two men are killed by falling trees as storm arwen hits parts of the uk with high winds, rain and snow. borisjohnson hasjust boris johnson has just announced borisjohnson has just announced new temporary coronavirus controls in england at two cases of the highly transmissible 0micron were discovered. the uk cases, in essex and nottingham, are linked to travel in southern africa and from the same cluster. borisjohnson said that in response some cor...