“The ICU is full”: medical staff on frontline of China’s COVID fight say hospitals are “overwhelmed”
Beijing, China Reuters In more than three decades of emergency medicine, Beijing-based doctor Howard Bernstein said, he has never seen anything like this. Patients are arriving at his hospital in ever-increasing numbers; almost all are elderly and many are very unwell with COVID and pneumonia symptoms, he said. An employee works at the production line […]
Essay: Protests against strict COVID-zero policy are sweeping China. It’s anyone’s guess what happens now
In an article first published on The Conversation, DAVID SG GOODMAN, director of the China Studies Centre at the University of Sydney, says while the protests in China are certainly a serious challenge to authority, they should be kept in perspective…
WHO chief says China’s zero-COVID policy not “sustainable”
London, UKReuters The head of the World Health Organization said on Tuesday China’s zero-tolerance COVID-19 policy is not sustainable given what is now known of the virus, in rare public comments by the UN agency on a government’s handling of the pandemic. “We don’t think that it is sustainable considering the behaviour of the virus […]