Hong Kong's Surge And The Pitfalls Of 'Zero COVID'

What A Day

News, Daily News

4.6 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

A missile strike on apartment buildings in the Ukraine’s capital of Kyiv on Tuesday killed at least four people and resulted in fires for hours after. The attack prompted a frantic rescue effort, and Kyiv’s mayor announced a 35-hour curfew in the city.

Hong Kong is experiencing its worst COVID outbreak since the start of the pandemic. Unlike the U.S., the province is still grappling with the highly transmissible Omicron variant, with scenes reminiscent of much earlier days in the pandemic. Shibani Mahtani, the Southeast Asia and Hong Kong bureau chief for The Washington Post, joins us to discuss what things look like on the ground.

And in headlines: Authorities in Washington D.C. arrested a suspect in the shootings of at least five unhoused people in D.C. and New York City, an Indian court upheld a ban on wearing hijabs at schools and colleges, and Pfizer and BioNTech have asked the Food and Drug Administration to authorize a second COVID booster shot for people 65 and older.

Show Notes:

Washington Post’s Shibani Mahtani – https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/shibani-mahtani/

Follow us on Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/whataday/

For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/whataday

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	It is Wednesday, March 16th. I'm Gideon Ressick.
0:08.7	And I'm Priyanka Arabandi and this is what a day, wishing a speedy recovery to Doug
0:13.2	M. Hoff, the first second gentleman to test positive for COVID-19.
0:16.8	Yes, he is also the first second gentleman overall, so he's breaking boundaries with basically
0:21.2	everything he does. Future second gentleman everywhere are depending on him, too,
0:25.0	both recover from COVID and to be a good second gentleman. On today's show, an on-the-ground
0:32.5	view from Hong Kong as it deals with its worst COVID outbreaks since the start of the pandemic,
0:37.0	plus Pfizer asks the FDA to greenlight another booster shot for older Americans.
0:41.9	But first, the latest on the ground in Ukraine as we go to record this at 9.30
0:46.4	Eastern on Tuesday night. The devastation continues across Ukraine as Russia's invasion persists.
0:52.7	A missile strike on apartment buildings in the country's capital of Kiev on Tuesday
0:56.4	killed at least four people and resulted in fires for hours afterwards. The attack prompted a
1:01.7	frantic rescue effort and Kiev's mayor Vitaly Klitschko also announced a 35-hour curfew in the
1:07.3	city that started at 8 p.m. local time on Tuesday. This curfew means that people will not be allowed
1:12.6	to leave their homes unless they're trying to reach shelter. After it went into effect,
1:17.2	CNN reported that its team in Kiev suburbs could hear explosions and air raid sirens throughout
1:22.4	the night. Meanwhile, in the southern port city of Mariopoul, the Russian army has taken nearly
1:27.3	400 people hostage within the city's largest hospital. Reminder, Mariopoul has remained cut off
1:32.8	from food, water, heat, and supplies for over two weeks, and the death count there has surged.
1:38.3	The president of the International Committee of the Red Cross has called it a, quote,
1:41.9	life and death nightmare. Yeah, it is horrendous. And a lot of the images and videos that we've
1:46.5	been seeing out of Mariopoul in particular have come from regular people with cell phones.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from What A Day, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of What A Day and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.