Overloaded and understaffed hospitals in China battle with Invasion of coronavirus patients.
In China, the number of patients with COVID-19 is growing every day after Beijing lifted pandemic restrictions.
This is reported by The New York Times.
The emergency rooms at a hospital in northern China are overwhelmed. The medical system in China is already on the verge of its capabilities, the source reports.
“The hospital is operating on the brink. About 80-90% of the people around me are infected,” said doctor Dr. Judy Pu.
The actual scale of the health emergency in China is difficult to assess, in part due to China's government has abandoned mass testing.
“Insufficient vaccination rates in the country, as well as a lack of herd immunity, have raised fears that the number of deaths could reach previously observed levels during the pandemic in the United States, Western Europe and Hong Kong “, writes The New York Times.
Data released by local authorities confirms that the virus is spreading, with hundreds of thousands of infections reported daily from several cities and provinces.
“There are also many questions about the number of coronavirus-related deaths reported by China, as officials only count those who died from respiratory failure directly related to the infection. Officially, seven people have died from the virus since pandemic rules were relaxed.” December 7 and this figure refutes unofficial data from all over the country,” the publication reports.
Amid the spread of coronavirus in China, the country's personnel crisis is expected to worsen, as millions of doctors will go home in January on the eve of the Lunar New Year.< /p>
DW also commented on the coronavirus outbreak.
Experts say that the coronavirus could turn China into a “brake for the global economy.”
“The sudden sharp turn of the Chinese authorities from a tough The policy of “zero tolerance for caps” to the complete abolition of almost all measures to combat the pandemic has caused concern far beyond the country's borders. Anxiety is exacerbated by the already smoldering crisis in the local real estate market for many years. Back in June, the World Bank predicted the growth of the Chinese economy by 4.3% in 2022 and by 8.1% in 2023,” financial analysts noted.
It was previously reported that since the beginning of winter in China, COVID almost 248 million people fell ill, or 18% of the country's population.
