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00:00Emma we continue to see as to be fair we've seen in most other places where McCain has taken hold this surge in cases in terms of China's management. What's going on in Shanghai. Where are we at with these so-called staggered but not really in a practical sense lockdowns. Yeah I mean the lockdown in effect has been extended so you know initially we had this sort of two phases situation but that should have ended by now and the whole is basically still under some kind of restrictions. So twenty five million people restricted from leaving their homes. I mean we're not seeing any sign in the rhetoric or practice on the ground of China adjusting its approach. It's still very much focused on Covid zero and that involves isolating every single one of these. Now more than 17000 cases reported for yesterday in as I can see you're showing the images now. These isolation sites they did say yesterday that they were opening up a new one. This is a peace conference center. The Chao Airport where they tend to hold the China import export event every year. Very fast center which does suggest that they are having to really expand the isolation footprint in order to stick to this policy. And you'll remember this is one of the things that caught Hong Kong. They were able to keep up with the need for isolation. And so they shifted to home isolation which just doesn't appear to be something China's willing to do. And yet we continue to see these record daily cases. So what's in store in terms of what China can do to continue managing this outbreak. Well I mean the record cases will be a five but after the fact. They are mass testing continually. So you have seen them just mass test the entire city. So you naturally will find more cases in that sort of situation. And anyone who is a close contact of a case still in Shanghai is isolated as well. So you will see them pick up cases that may not be may not have been picked up in other parts of the world. It's just a much more intensive sort of testing regime going on. But you know we'll be watching over the next couple of days to a week if the cases do continue to rise even though you sort of out of this mass testing window that may indicate that this you know the horse has bolted a little bit on this one and that this is out of control. Conversely if it starts to sort of tail off you know that they've been able to put this sort of improbable Covid 0 playbook to work yet again. But I think it'll be only a matter of time before this highly transmissible variant pops up somewhere else in China. And they need to be making some decisions about where to next.

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Shanghai Reports Over 17,000 Covid Cases on Tuesday

Shanghai is reporting a record number of covid-19 cases again. Cases rising to 17,000 on Tuesday. Bloomberg’s Emma O’Brien reports on “Bloomberg Daybreak: Asia.” (Source: Bloomberg)

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