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What are the big changes, and what does it mean for everyone? >> this is bait of an end to an era. i'm happy to be sitting here and saying this after years and years of this, it feels like. so these changes are for several reasons. one of them really, the big one, is that it's just -- covid isn't the threat that it once was. the vast majority of americans have immunity from vaccination or previous infection. plus we have vaccines, we have treatments. it's different than it once was. let's look at what the cdc announced yesterday. they said no more six feet social distancing recommendations, so...

Down in their homes and millions are facing compulsory testing, after a surge of covid—19 cases linked to a late—night bar in the chinese capital was revealed. it's raised concerns of a city—wide shutdown just as china's second—largest city shanghai slowly re—emerges from a two—month lockdown. a short time ago, i spoke to our china correspondent stephen mcdonell, who's quarantining in a hotel in the southern city of xiamen. he's just returned to china. i asked him to give us a sense what these restrictions are like. the rest of the world may have moved on from all these covid restr...

The events of the night _ and what happened afterwards. if there had been some criminal convictions, i if people that lived in social housing were never going l to be treated the way| that we were treated, if there was no one going - to bed at night with the same cladding as grenfell on their buildings, i that would be something. but none of that has happened, and that's why it's so painful. . because, people here say, this is not over until justice is done. tom symonds, bbc news, at grenfell tower. thousands of people in beijing are being locked down in their homes and millions are facing com...

View of the virus, doctor, where with it seems under control and then suddenly it's not. shanghai returned to business as normal, then there's a bit of a lockdown affecting 2 million less -- residents right afterwards. so where are we on this? >> well, this is a highly infective subvarian i can't, and you know there are -- subvariants, and you know there are subvariants of the variety i can't -- variant at the time. we're all hoping that delta, that that doesn't arise. right now people are being infected and staying home and quarantining, god willing. for the 5-day period until their symptoms ...

Would have started now? >> well, you're right. this is a disease, monkeypox, that is present and endemic, as it's called, in parts of west and central africa. i grew up in liberia and have practiced in south africa, and have seen cases of monkeypox there. what's unusual about this outbreak, laura, is that it's spreading in places that don't typically have infections. how it started is unclear. we're getting new clues every day. currently we have clusters of outbreaks in places like spain and portugal and the united kingdom. we have a few cases, as you noted, here in the united states, most of ...