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The Highwire with Del Bigtree

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The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

News, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.93.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Uncertainty clouds the coverage of what appears to be brutal lockdown of countless numbers in Shanghai. Now, reports are coming, in the form of viral videos leaked to social media, indicating Lockdowns have spread to another major city in China.

#ChinaLockdowns #BeijingLockdown

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0:00.0

One of the bigger stories that I'm seeing across the world is what's still

0:04.5

continuing to happen in China. So we saw in Beijing a lockdown now and this was

0:10.2

in Shanghai. So the Shanghai lockdown was the first one we saw a high rise of

0:15.2

people screaming because they were trapped in there. People being tested and

0:19.4

protesting too which was very rare for China. Mass protests, mass testing. We also

0:24.8

saw people fighting for food because the the supermarkets were running law

0:30.7

and food because this is the major container port for shipping and for

0:35.5

industry. So the food was having a problem getting there. Quarantine centers,

0:38.6

they were separating kids. You probably see that from the video there. That was

0:42.2

all happening in Shanghai. It's been going on for really over a month now and that

0:47.0

is now spilling over into Beijing. So this is what the headlines have been showing

0:51.6

over this past week. When word was coming that Beijing may lock down. We saw

0:57.0

this New York Times Shanghai's food crisis prompt residents in Beijing to

1:00.8

stockpile supplies. So Beijing is comprised. It's it's China's capital city. So

1:07.0

a lot of their governance politics are headquartered there and it has 16

1:11.2

districts. So of those 16 districts there's about 12 of them right now that are

1:16.8

that are on a mile lockdown with mandatory testing. So this was the headline and

1:21.2

we saw this same ramp up in Shanghai. So they're now testing in Beijing 20

1:26.7

million residents. So Beijing expands COVID mass testing to nearly 20 million

1:30.7

residents as it races to avoid Shanghai style lockdown. So as we speak these

1:35.0

Beijing residents living and working in 12 of these 16 districts have been

1:39.6

ordered to take three consecutive nucleic acid tests that started Tuesday,

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