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Coverings while covid case numbers remain high. meanwhile, police in scotland are investigating a complaint about the first minister, nicola sturgeon, not wearing a face—covering. video footage on social media appears to show ms sturgeon without a mask inside a barber's, despite it being a legal requirement until today. the snp said she realised within a few seconds, and put herface covering on. more than 10,000 people who signed up to help deliver covid—i9 vaccinations have now taken permanent roles with the nhs in england. those who have chosen to stay in the health service include forme...

From acute coronary syndrome, i diabetes, hypertension and other serious underlying diseases. all cases have not been vaccinated against covid—19. so authorities there saying those three people had underlying health conditions — and weren't vaccinated. since march, shanghai has recorded 300,000 infections. and its 25 million residents have been in lockdown. and they're about to enter a fourth week of lockdown. another round of mass testing has been announced. there are reports of people running out of food. those stuck at home have been trading food and other basic supplies with neighbours...

Even if it wanted to, what would be the risk at this point? >> well, i think it's understandable that in china they're adopting the zero policy as many elderly people have yet to complete the second or third dose vaccination. they have a very high first dose vaccination rate of 90%, but that was six months ago. they really need to catch up on the second and third dose. if they move away from the dynamic zero policy, then they will have a lot of people coming down with severe disease. and even though it's omicron, because many of the elderly will come down with relatively severe disease. so i t...

This is not unexpected that you are going to see an up tick when you pull back on the mitigation. this is not going to be eradicated or eliminated. what will happen is we're going to see that each individual is going to have to make their calculation of the amount of risk they want to take. >> meantime in china, officials say the best way to fight surging covitd infections is stay the course. with the strict zero covid policy. so far, that's meant multiple round of testing and restrictions on movement for the entire city of shanghai. as well as mandatory quarantine in government centers for an...

Amount of risk that they want to take. >> very clear, this virus isn't going anywhere. meantime, in china, officials say the best way to fight surging covid infections is stay the course with a strict zero covid policy. so far, that's meant multiple rounds of testing and restrictions for movement of the entire city of shanghai, as well as mandatory quarantine in government centers for anyone testing positive. residents, of course, aren't happy with the measures, especially that there are reports of protests and food shortages right around the city. despite this, officials are ordering addition...