Even after the covid-19 epidemic, many will continue to favour internet hospitals
, a coronavirus, hit China in 2003 citizens hunkered down at home. This proved a blessing for some businesses. Chinese social media took off. So did e-commerce. Richard Liu, who ran a chain of consumer-electronics shops, shut all his brick-and-mortar stores and set upA novel coronavirus that has brought China to a halt this year is boosting another fledgling industry: telemedicine.
Until now, however, most of these firms have stuck to delivering drugs or, in Ping An’s case, booking appointments with specialists, whom Chinese patients favour over general practitioners, even if it means queuing for hours at a hospital. Prestigious “” hospitals account for one in ten public institutions but receive half of all outpatients.
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