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Vaccinated in double boosted. >> meantime, in china, for the third consecutive day, shanghai has hit a daily high in covid cases. on saturday, the city reported more than 24,000 new cases, and that's not good for a city where frustrations are already running high, under the lockdown and crucial food shortages. shanghai's vice mayor announced that there would be some type of easing of the restrictions in low transmission areas, but that would also depend on the results from citywide testing. anna coren is in hong kong for us, and she's following all these details. and, i given what's residents ...

Important financial hub has battled a new wave of infections for nearly a month, registering a new record for daily numbers on monday with 3500 new cases. our china correspondent, robin brant, says the order has triggered panic—buying. this is as far as i can go at the moment. as you can see, the barriers are down, the entrances are sealed off. i'm on the eastern side of shanghai, and this whole swathe of the city has been locked down, and it's going to be like that for the next few days. this is a city that is home to almost 25 million people, and that is why these measures are so significa...

Of its worst outbreak since the pandemic began. authorities finished a second round of citywide testing on tuesday with the help of more than 10,000 health care workers brought in to help manage the outbreak. cnn's selina wang joins me now from tokyo with the latest. good to see you, selina. so how have people in shanghai been coping with this lockdown, and now of course news that it will be extended in the midst of surging cases? >> reporter: well, rosemary, it's been incredibly frustrating for the shanghai residents. they've already been angry before this latest announcement. now there is no...

Stringent way possible, something we really haven't seen since the peak of the pandemic in this country when wuhan was still the epicenter. as you said, since last week, the authorities have confined the city's 13 million residents mostly to their homes with a few exceptions such as allowing each household to send out one representative every other day to do grocery shopping. but even that privilege, if you will, has just been suspended according to the latest local news reports because they have just begun another round of citywide testing. now, this, of course, by now is part of their famili...

And whilst we've seen an increase — literally, from the next day we have seen an increase — it's marginal, and when you think most businesses are trading 80% down you need a huge amount of volume to make up anywhere near the shortfall that they're experiencing. those who do now want to book a getaway will still need to check what the rules are for holiday—makers arriving at their destination. katie austin, bbc news. authorities in the chinese city of wuhan say they have completed citywide testing for covid—19 after a resurgence of cases more than a year after the coronavirus first emer...