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City remains under lockdown and frustrations are running high. shanghais mayor says some restrictions may be lifted in some areas. our anna coren is following the story for us from hong kong and joins us now live. good to see you, anna. so despite the strict lockdown symptomatic covid cases are increasing but restrictions for some are easing. >> reporter: yeah. well, as you just mentioned, lynda, officials are indicating that restrictions could ease following another round of mass testing. few d...

Down, theres very little hope of them opening up. >> yeah. and of course 17,000 new covid cases were reported in shanghai wednesday, and now makeshift hospitals are being erected to take in new patients. what needs to be done, do you think, to contain this if these extended lockdowns arent working, and why has there been so little planning for food and water needs, do you think? >> yeah, on the second question in terms of planning, its really something that everyone in the city is asking right n...

Tien jian. billions of people are on lockdown. schools remain suspended. all 14 million residents had to go through a second round of covid-19 testing. unlike europe, china does not live with covid-19. it pursues a very strict zero covid strategy. that means snap lockdowns, mass testing, contact tracing. very strict border controls. the experts say despite this policy, despite the fact china has a very high vaccination rate, the people in china remain vulnerable to infection because of the limit...

She been in the past two weeks. we are seeing lockdowns, snap lockdowns, mass testing, contact tracing, quarantines playing out. a city with 13 million people has been under a strict lockdown for weeks. theres video of thousands of students in full hazmat suits being bussed to quarantine facilities because of a local outbreak. this olympics is going to push that covid strategy to its absolute limit, jim. >> no question. look at those little kids in those outfits too. selina wang thanks so much f...

Cnns >> china says it will no longer sell winter olympics tickets to the public. international fans have already been banned from attending. in the coming weeks, thousands of athletes and officials from around the world will be gathering under some of the strictest covid countermeasures in the world. theyll be in a closed bubble during the entirety of the games, pcr tested daily and vaccinated or forced to quarantine for 21 days. this comes as beijing has reported its first case of omicron. this...

Transmitted cases of the virus, five. this is a handful of cases. were talking about zero covid china at the time of the beijing games. mass testing is underway. 2 million people in the district of beijing are undergoing mandatory covid testing right now. snap lockdowns, thats happening. a number of people in the district following 13 residential buildings have been sealed off. theyre not allowed to leave their homes for 21 days. beijing officials have issued a curious directive telling all peop...

Matter. bach in beijing is expected to meet with peng soon. the olympic bubble is holding the athletes, the person pell and incoming media kept separate from the rest of china. this as the number of new covid-19 cases continues to rise and spread across the mainland. >> china facing a renewed challenge to halt this latest surge. snap lockdowns, mass testing and contact tracing and all a bit stepped up as the country works to show its superiority in containing the virus. state media continuing to...

Need to be afraid of omicron. by applying the dynamic zero case policy and observing the prevention and control measures, unquote. china is confident in what its calling a dynamic zero covid strategy. its a strategy of throwing the entire pandemic playbook at even just a handful of cases. youve got mass testing or contact tracing, snap lockdowns, border controls, travel restrictions, et cetera. i think china is using the word "dynamic" here because it realizes it is very difficult to keep the nu...

Place until we have the scientific information.— place until we have the scientific information. ., ~ , ., , . china has warned that the fast—spreading omicron variant will pose challenges at the winter olympics in beijing in february. china has largely quashed covid—i9 within its borders through travel restrictions and snap lockdowns. but outbreaks linked to the delta variant have persisted. foreign ministry spokesman zhao lijian says hes confident the winter olympics will be conducted sm...

The three positive cases are friends who travelled to the nearby city of Suzhou together last week, Shanghai health authorities said