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Causes being turned away. in at least one case a local nurse died because of this. and then of course the city has to -- the country's oldest population among all major cities. that's another concern because that's a segment of the population undervaccinated. all of this of course is happening in shanghai but it's being decided here in beijing but seems at least for now the leadership here is not ready to change course when it comes to its zero covid policy because it's been working for them politically and not to mention the top priority is that communist party congress we've been talking for...

The overwhelming majority of these cases have been asymptomatic. that means most of them would not require hospital care. that's why up till this point shanghai had really prided itself on its less disruptive approach to covid containment. the city had never undertaken citywide mass testings. and its quarantine measures were considered less restrictive. but it seems like, you know, despite hope that the shanghai model would be replicated for the rest of the country, the opposite is now happening with shanghai adopting harsh measures. we had previously only seen in other cities. and this new tw...

Tested to maintain a green health code status so they can go to grocery stores and public areas. and cnn's beijing bureau chief steven jiang joins me now to talk more on this. great to see you, steven. it is a massive undertaking, isn't it? more than 25 million residents to be tested in just a matter of days. is this the most efficient way for authorities to do this? >> rosemary, you know, this follows days of confusion and chaos both on the streets and online about what they would do to shanghai, which is experiencing its biggest surge of covid cases since the pandemic began. remember, for da...

Of chronic health conditions for those people who don't have access to their medicines, to regular medical care. the longer those people have to go without, for example, clean drinking water or clean food, we worry about the emergence of communicable diseases like cholera, for example. there was an outbreak of cholera in mariupol back in 2011. so we worry about outbreaks of infectious diseases in those places. >> judyth twigg talking to me earlier. just ahead, with covid cases surging shanghai is going into lockdown as health authorities try to test tens of millions of people. we will have a l...

They keep a close eye on surging cases in europe and asia. >> we're looking in new york and we're already seeing an uptick. and we know what happens in the northeast tends to herald what happens in the rest of the country. but it's still very hard to predict. and instead of focusing on is this the variant that's going to cause the next surge what we really should be focused on is what should we be doing to stay in a state of preparation for when the next variant causes a surge. and that, again, comes back to that federal funding, having adequate federal funding and then saying what are the thi...