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And officials are building makeshift hospitals to hold thousands of newly infected covid patients. authorities are also amending the policy for separating covid positive children from their families. parents who test negative can now apply for special permission to be with children who have tested positive. joining me now live from tokyo with more on this. good to see you. shanghai authorities are struggling, aren't that? to contain the out break despite an extended lock down in the city with apparently very few supplies available to citizens. what's going on? >> the scale of this lock down ...

Welcome back, everyone. well, authorities in shanghai say the lockdown in the city will continue until further notice amid yet another round of citywide covid testing. more than 17,000 new cases were reported in the city on tuesday, and officials are building makeshift hospitals to hold thousands of newly infected covid patients. authorities are also amending the policy for separating covid-positive children from their families. parents who test negative can now apply for special permission to be with children who have tested positive. for more from shanghai, i'm joined now by don wineland, th...

Give them clear guidance because i'm confused at times as well. >> should it also be expected that there are going to be nuks waiting instructions because this virus is changing, it's constantly evolving and so guidance has to constantly evolve as well? >> i 100% agree and i think a lot of the changes made, the ten to five days were in the interest of kind of being current with the science and the he have hugs of omicron and what we're seeing. i think it's been said over and over again we just wish testing was a part of it. i tell my patients if they have access to tests, test negative twice i...

Negative. you have to prove yourself. we have data from workplace and school testing programs that highlight, jonathan, exactly what you said. people will have a symptom, test negative, test negative with a rapid test and get a pcr test, which is much better, that will be positive. short supplies, delays, lines around the corner. we know that's another kind of -- to willie's comment earlier, this feels the timing as well as lack of comment on testing for isolation. let me be clear, isolation is what happens when you have a positive test or symptom. a quarantine is what happens when you're expo...

Quarantined of shutdown right before the holiday. what will happen when schools are pressured to reopen and they do not have some of these measures in place. teachers don't have high quality masks and air ventilation. those are the critical differences would have been nice to see in the media advisory and plain language to people. the quality of your masks matter. we should throw away these fabric masks. i have been throwing them in the garbage now, they're useless at this point. >> this changed comes in a moment when there is a shortage of tests along the eastern west coast. those who have te...