1/7 - “Hospitals in Beijing are being overwhelmed by sick elderly #COVID19 patients just weeks after China abandoned its tough coronavirus containment measures with little preparation for the exit wave now ripping through the country.”
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2/7 - “Emergency rooms have run out of cots for patients, the infirm are waiting hours for ambulances and many doctors are too sick with #COVID19 to work. Some facilities are so overloaded they are running out of oxygen hookups for those with respiratory problems.”
3/7 - “Beijing’s healthcare system was long thought to be among the best prepared in the country to deal with a surge of Covid infections. But the gov’s decision this month to abruptly abandon its draconian #ZeroCovid, has sparked one of the country’s biggest Covid outbreaks.”
4/7 - “China has officially reported an increase of #COVID19 deaths of only six since December 3. Most analysts believe the real number is probably dramatically higher as coronavirus infects tens of millions of people for the first time.“
5/7 - “The latest omicron variants are so transmissible and because of the lack of mitigation measures as well, it’s really spread faster than anything that we’ve ever seen before,” he said, noting little appeared to have been done to slow the spread and flatten the curve.”
6/7 - “We couldn’t find a hospital bed. The wards were completely overwhelmed and short staffed,” said the relative of a man in his 80s who died at home in Beijing. He said doctors had advised the grandfather against vaccination because of his underlying health conditions.”
7/7 - “The city has done a better job of keeping coronavirus out of its nursing homes, which from mid-September were ordered to close off from the outside world. Five Beijing nursing homes visited by the FT remained under strict lockdown.“
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