Health officials are concerned that people traveling home to their villages for the Lunar New Year could turn celebrations into superspreader events, catching ill-prepared rural systems off guard.
"As the experts say, just set off some fireworks, have a good party and scare away the virus," says Sun Caiyun, an ebullient restaurant owner in Beijing who says she is intent on heading back to her home village in the northern Shandong province – COVID or not."Of course I am planning on returning home, because Beijing bans firecrackers!"
"The Chinese have delayed reporting lately, and we don't have the breakdown at the hospital lately of people admitted for COVID, or with COVID," says Dr. Mokdad. The World Health Organizationthis week that it, too, had not received new data from China on COVID-19 hospitalizations since early December.
Hospitals that NPR visited in Beijing this week were busy but orderly, with a handful elderly patients in the lobby lying in gurneys hooked up to intravenous bags because beds had run out.it was accelerating the expansion of fever treatment clinics – where patients can get quick medical consultations and supplies from a pharmacy — to cover 90% of rural areas to prepare them for the anticipated increase.
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