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Professorjin dong—yan is a virologist based in hong kong and has assessing whether china's vaccines are effective against the omicron variant and whether the country's containment measures will work. i am pretty sure that they will still be very successful because of their execution power, they have actually locked down the city almost like in wuhan two years ago. do they need to do this? yes, they are implementing very, very strict measures in xi'an, but is this also related to concerns over the ability of chinese vaccines to handle the omicron variant? microbiologists from your own univers...

Long way to go in terms of the booster uptake.— long way to go in terms of the booster uptake. for now, robert, thanks for— booster uptake. for now, robert, thanks forjoining _ booster uptake. for now, robert, thanks forjoining us. _ the uk's medicines regulator has approved a new anti viral pill for covid. the drug company pfizer claims that when taken by high risk patients with mild to moderate symptoms, paxlovid reduces hospitalizations and deaths by 89%. the two active substances of paxlovid come as separate tablets that are packaged and taken together, twice a day by mouth for five da...

China has been worried about once it is opening up it will make the health system a very stressful. there is a concern about the ageing population and underlying and chronic conditions. it is a higher stakes now, with the high transmissibility of the delta and omicron variants, the worry is, if they open up, especially before the spring festival, before the major event, the winter olympics, it may get worse, so that is why the stakes are higher but they still think it is in the interests at least for the next couple of months to keep the virus at bay. to next couple of months to keep the virus...

Of the country's strictest lockdowns since the pandemic began. these images are from inside xi'an. sun chunlan told officials there to speed up testing and do more to isolate the close contacts of those found to be positive. more than 1,200 cases have been found in the city in the past few weeks. to tell us about whether this strategy is the best way to keep omicron at bay, i am joined now by dr xi chen, an expert in health policy at yale university. thanks forjoining us. by comparison with some of the numbers we have seenin with some of the numbers we have seen in other countries, china's inf...

Border, it seems many in carlisle will do and i've been asking staff and they understand, they are not angry people are coming from scotland and they understand that if it was the other way around they would be doing exactly the same. back to you. would be doing exactly the same. back to yon-— back to you. olivia, thanks for “oininr back to you. olivia, thanks for joining us- _ authorities in china are attempting to stick to a zero coronavirus strategy ahead of its lunar new year celebrations and the beijing winter olympics. the country's vice premier has visited the northern city of xi'an...