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Coverings while covid case numbers remain high. meanwhile, police in scotland are investigating a complaint about the first minister, nicola sturgeon, not wearing a face—covering. video footage on social media appears to show ms sturgeon without a mask inside a barbers, despite it being a legal requirement until today. the snp said she realised within a few seconds, and put herface covering on. more than 10,000 people who signed up to help deliver covid—i9 vaccinations have now taken permane...

From acute coronary syndrome, i diabetes, hypertension and other serious underlying diseases. all cases have not been vaccinated against covid—19. so authorities there saying those three people had underlying health conditions — and werent vaccinated. since march, shanghai has recorded 300,000 infections. and its 25 million residents have been in lockdown. and theyre about to enter a fourth week of lockdown. another round of mass testing has been announced. there are reports of people runnin...

Even if it wanted to, what would be the risk at this point? >> well, i think its understandable that in china theyre adopting the zero policy as many elderly people have yet to complete the second or third dose vaccination. they have a very high first dose vaccination rate of 90%, but that was six months ago. they really need to catch up on the second and third dose. if they move away from the dynamic zero policy, then they will have a lot of people coming down with severe disease. and even thou...

This is not unexpected that you are going to see an up tick when you pull back on the mitigation. this is not going to be eradicated or eliminated. what will happen is were going to see that each individual is going to have to make their calculation of the amount of risk they want to take. >> meantime in china, officials say the best way to fight surging covitd infections is stay the course. with the strict zero covid policy. so far, thats meant multiple round of testing and restrictions on move...

Amount of risk that they want to take. >> very clear, this virus isnt going anywhere. meantime, in china, officials say the best way to fight surging covid infections is stay the course with a strict zero covid policy. so far, thats meant multiple rounds of testing and restrictions for movement of the entire city of shanghai, as well as mandatory quarantine in government centers for anyone testing positive. residents, of course, arent happy with the measures, especially that there are reports of...

Climbing case load. on saturday shanghai reported nearly 25,000 cases another daily high. right now all 25 million residents, yes, all of them, are under lockdown. the easing of restrictions would be tied to mass testing. areas of low transmission would be granted more freedom. joining us now from hong kong, youve been following all of this. any kind of easing of restrictions seems to be predicated on that mass testing. is this at all a change in chinas zero covid approach or really specific to ...

Details, no timeframe, other than it will be considered after the next round of mass testing. we have to remember that this is the worst outbreak in china since the pandemic began two years ago, so theyve taken these very strict and draconian measures. good news for the 25 million residents of shanghai have been locked up in their home since the end of march, who have been experiencing severe shortages of food and medicine. take a look. >> workers stuck intricate bags of food and supplies, to de...

>> anna, thank you for that. at this point, as we continue to await what would be the reaction to that mass testing. thanks so much. just ahead here for us on "cnn newsroom," the water level at lake powell in arizona has dropped an astonishing 177 feet since the mid-80s. our bill weir will show you what that means. inner voice (furniture maker): im rubbing the arms of my chair... ...admiring the craft and detail ive put into it. that way i try to convince myself that im in control of the busin...

Restrictions in some areas when transmission rates are low enough. that came without a timeline, and coincide with yet in other round of mass testing. city residents were asked to self administer at home covid-19 tests and lineup in their compounds the pcr tests despite the -- on friday praised the countrys dynamic zero covid strategy calling it a great success. now paula as we reported yesterday the u.s. state department told its staff, and non emergency staff that they should leave shanghai do...

Officials that they have resumed the operation of e-commerce platforms. that means that the food deliveries may resume. they were shut down and this has led to the food shortages, severe food shortages. people posting about this on social media and as we know domestic criticism is very much frowned on, silenced, stamped out. people dont care what the repercussions are. that is how angry they have been. now perhaps the delivery people will be able to deliver the groceries rather than residents re...