Before the lunar new year holidays state media has been filled with stories of rural hospitals and clinics bolstering supplies of drugs and equipment
Travellers at Beijing South Railway Station in Beijing, China, on January 15 2023. Picture: BLOOMBERGLuggage-laden passengers flocked to railway stations and airports in China's megacities on Monday, heading home for holidays that health experts fear could intensify a Covid-19 outbreak that has claimed thousands of lives.
Even those numbers probably exclude many people dying at home, especially in rural areas with weaker medical systems, one health expert has said. Several experts forecast more than a million people in China will die from the disease this year. Daily arrivals in the gambling hub of Macau exceeded 55,000 on Saturday, the highest daily arrivals since the pandemic began.
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