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that was probably the most difficult period of time. WEINLAND: You know, I would say week two, week three. So we were able to step outside at least once a day.ĬHAKRABRTI: Honestly, Don, how is your mental health right now? Prior to that, we had been going down nearly every day to a place just next door to do the PCR test. WEINLAND: So for the past two days we've actually been asked to do the rapid at-home antigen tests in our room, so we haven't gone downstairs for the PCR tests.

So it's a bit better than an average hotel room.ĬHAKRABARTI: Now, beforehand in previous interviews that you've done, you were able to leave, what, once a day in order to actually go get PCR tested? Is that still going on? Or are you literally in your hotel room or your suite 24/7? WEINLAND: We're in something that's a little bit better than your average hotel room. I said you were confined to your hotel, but should I be more specific? Is it your hotel room that you and your wife have been confined to? So, yeah, things just recently have become more difficult for us.ĬHAKRABARTI: Okay. We can't order delivery food anymore, which is, you know, that makes things a lot more difficult. And things have tightened up and we are back inside. We were allowed a little bit of time out over the weekend, but there's been a a shift in policy. WEINLAND: The conditions right now have actually become more strict, just over the past 24 hours. Don, welcome to On Point.ĬHAKRABARTI: So, first of all, tell me, what are the conditions right now, of your particular lockdown? So he and his wife have been mostly confined to their hotel for 61 days. And then the lockdown began at the end of March in Shanghai. And he was first on obligatory quarantine. He's China business and finance editor for The Economist. how that is having an impact on the rest of the world. MEGHNA CHAKRABARTI: So today we're going to ask why and how the COVID zero strategy is having an impact on China. But all of them have pulled back from the goal of total COVID eradication. Now, other countries have tried COVID zero programs: New Zealand, Taiwan, Vietnam. As infections keep popping up, the government keeps clamping down. It's all part of China's COVID zero policy. That's about exactly the same size as the United States.

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Some 46 cities across China are under full or partial lockdown, affecting the lives of more than 343 million people. Shanghai's population of 25 million has been ordered to stay at home since the government imposed a lockdown at the end of March. Interview Highlights: Journalist Don Weinland On His Quarantine In China, And The Country's 'COVID Zero' Policy Judith McCool, head of the department of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of Auckland. Director of global health studies at Seton Hall University's School of Diplomacy and International Relations. ( Huang, senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations. ( Yangyang Cheng, fellow and research scholar at Yale Law School's Paul Tsai China Center and a frequent columnist on Chinese politics and U.S.-China relations. Guestsĭon Weinland, China business and finance editor for The Economist. He and his wife have been mostly confined to their hotel for 61 days. Today, On Point: Why China won't relent on its COVID zero strategy. 'Basically just a matter of time, we would expect the next wave to come.' You cannot eradicate the virus,' Yanzhong Huang says. I think everybody is pretty much on tenterhooks in Shanghai.'Įven though Shanghai's lockdown has relaxed somewhat, after weeks in their homes, the frustration is palpable and audible. The people you see on bikes are all in like white hazmat suits. “It's really eerie,' journalist Brenda Goh says. Shanghai, population more than 25 million, has been under almost total lockdown as China continues to pursue its uncompromising COVID-zero strategy. A transit officer, wearing a protective gear, controls access to a tunnel in the direction of Pudong district in lockdown as a measure against the Covid-19 coronavirus, in Shanghai on March 28, 2022.

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