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Can't leave the ports, can't leave the airports in shanghai, and these are goods which are ultimately going to europe and the u.s. it's going to push prices up. we're going to see more inflationary pressure. >> reporter: the zero-covid strategy has also forced many factories in shanghai to suspend operations. the apple supplier pegatron has suspended production at its shanghai plant and volkswagen and tesla's factories have been shut for weeks. production as resumed at tesla with elon musk saying this, tesla shanghai is coming back with a vengeance. but the company warned it too is not immune ...

Businesses have been forced to adjust their outlooks because of delays resulting from China’s zero-Covid ambitions, but ‘transport isn’t stopping’.

Olympics, the athletes, the olympic personnel, the media, they're employing this in what's going to be a surprise to a lot of people. i think folks who are coming in are shocked to see this zero covid strategy and how it's going to play out. yes, they're lowering the threshold a bit but they're still maintaining a very strict policy when it comes to those testing positive, having to be isolated and for a certain period of time, will stay that way until they're deemed safe enough to re-enter the rest of the olympic bubble and participate in any events they're initially part of taking. so it's r...

Test tens of millions of people. we see entire populations of cities tested in a few days' time. the last aspect is contact tracing. that's using smartphone technology, more than anything else, to monitor our whereabouts, to know if we've come in contact with a confirmed case and to follow us really throughout the country if we're a potential exposure and possibly transmitting that virus to other people. so, that has been really sophisticated and enhanced over the past several months or so. all of that timing around the olympics. so, the folks who are coming in, these olympic arrivals, getting...

Tested positive. you'd have 15 minutes to gather your things before being taken away and put on lockdown at a designated amount of time like audrey king. one of the olympians who have already tested positive. they're serious about covid. these beijing games are a lot different than the tokyo games six months ago. daily covid testing, being defined to a well-defined closed loop system. in a set of closed loop, you could say fenced in. if there's any question about preventing the stress of virus, the heavily branded say it all. >> very good piece there from our coy wire. that does it here for me...