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right now stock index futures are leaning lower. asia closed mixed overnight. looks like except for china all down here. let s bring in kristie lu stout live in hong kong. when i look at that screen, the worries on wall street bled into the training in asia. what happened? reporter: yeah, markets tumbled after that tough wednesday on wall street. investors here like in the united states are spooked by rising inflation and supply chain disruptions. and with the exception of the shanghai composite, markets ended in the red. they are trying to rally the tech sector. you had the vice premiere of china say that the government would properly manage the relationship between the government and the markets, but it is interesting to note that the markets here in hong kong, they didn t buy it.
lot of scuffles that were elevated ask became physical so that is the reason why they are calli calling for that. it is worth noting however, though, that different transportation systems are looking how they are going to respond in different cities, and many ever them are still calling for masks to be worn. but i can tell you, walking through this airport, just now, about half the people i saw were still wearing masks. half weren t. you can see that across the board in a lot of places as people are figuring out ask learning they don t have to wear a mask when they get on a plane anymore. back to you. thanks for that. well now, to a warn from china s vice premiere. she is vowing to send anyone in shanghai with covid-19 and their close contacts with government-designated quarantine sites, and says it will happen, quote, without exception. the remarks come, as dozens of cities across china are already in full or partial lockdown under the country s strict
zero-covid strategy. and cnn s steven jiang is following this story for us. he joins us, live, from beijing. good to see you, stephen. so, lockdowns continue with conditions worsening, resulting in some heartbreaking stories, and now, this harsh government warning about quarantines. what is the latest on all of this? well, rosemary church, this just seems to be a never-ending nightmare for shanghai s 25 million residents. all of them are still sealed in homes and many are facing shortage of food and supplies, as well as lacking access to medical tangz or medical care for non-covid causes and that latest order from the vice premiere as you just mentioned it is already kauding a lot of pain for a lot of families because it means a growing number of senior citizens, some of them in their 90s are being forcibly removed from htheir homes and being taken to isolation government wards with
commoner said covid-19 may not kill you, but bureaucrats can. sadly we have learned that a second pregnant woman in xi an has suffered a miscarriage because of delayed medical care. the central government is now weighing in. we ve heard from a vice premiere in china telling hospitals in xi an that they must not turn away patients for any reasons whatsoever, but want to remind our viewers it was a staff member in the xi an hospital who told cnn earlier that the reason why they turned away that first pregnant eight-month pregnant patient was because they were merely following government covid-19 regulations. back to you. just truly heartbreaking, kristie, what these women have to go through as you said because of froetprotocol regula. stay with us. let s go to jim bittermann. we ve seen a number of schools closing. this must be all very stressful, not only for students, but also