Introduction

Holly chak is a reporter for the south china morning post in hong kong. She reports from shanghai, China's mega city where companies like apple and amazon base their operations. On sunday authorities reported a new record of covert cases, three and a half thousand,. Almost double the number of the day before. Today that number is six thousand new cases. Public transport has been suspended and mass testing has begun. Can this massive two stage lock down stop the virus, and at what cost to china's economy and global supply chains? And that's where i'm taking you in this episode, to see what happens there.