Since the relaxation of its 'zero Covid' restrictions earlier this month in the wake of unprecedented nationwide protests, China is facing its largest outbreak of the pandemic.
December 22, 2022, 5:22 AMAn elderly woman receives a COVID-19 vaccine in Danzhai, in China's southwestern Guizhou province, on Dec. 21, 2022.Since the relaxation of its "zero Covid" restrictions earlier this month in the wake of unprecedentedAt the same time, mass testing has been dropped as Chinese authorities changed their criteria in counting cases and COVID-19 deaths, rendering elusive a clear picture of the state of coronavirus in China.
Workers at Beijing’s Dongjiao Funeral Parlor in the capital’s eastern suburbs told ABC News that their crematorium is operating around the clock.The funeral home had run out of freezers to store the bodies, another worker surnamed Li told ABC News’ partners at TVBS News. Visitors line up at the cash counters in Baoding No. 2 Central Hospital in Zhuozhou city in northern China's Hebei province on Dec. 21, 2022.“Deaths caused by pneumonia and respiratory failure caused by the novel coronavirus are classified as deaths caused by COVID-19 infection,” Wang Guiqiang, director of the Infectious Diseases Department of Peking University First Hospital, told the media in a government press conference earlier this week.
People queue outside a makeshift clinic transformed from a bus in Nanjing, in China's eastern Jiangsu province on Dec. 21, 2022.In the western metropolis of Chongqing, a nurse in the pediatric department of one of the city’s three main hospitals told ABC News that her department is at capacity, full of children with high fevers.
The World Health Organization said Wednesday it was “very concerned” about severe coronavirus cases across China and warned the country’s lagging vaccination rate could result in large numbers of vulnerable people getting infected. China’s official state media has been focusing on re-opening the economy and stories of the recovered. Buried in the headlines have been an uptick of obituaries of prominent elderly Chinese citizens.
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