CHINA COVID - China's hospitals seem to be filling up
According to the World health Organization (WHO), hospitals in china look to be getting busier as worries about a new Covid-19 epidemic hitting the nation grow. ICUs are busy, according to Dr. Michael Ryan, despite claims from administrators that patient numbers are "quite low". China's official statistics indicate that no one passed away from Covid on Wednesday, but doubts persist about the disease's true toll.
As the latest Covid surge strikes china, hospitals in beijing and other places have been filling up recently. As part of its zero Covid strategy, china has set rigorous health regulations since 2020. However, following historic demonstrations against the tight regulations, the administration halted the majority of those measures two weeks ago. Since then, there have been an unprecedented number of cases, fueling concerns about a high mortality rate among the elderly, who are particularly susceptible. Despite the increase, the official statistics indicate that only five individuals died on tuesday and two on monday from Covid.
As a result, Dr. Ryan, the head of WHO's emergency response, has urged china to disclose more details regarding the most recent viral outbreak. "Relatively few instances in ICUs have been published in china, but anecdotally, ICUs are filling up," he said. We have been emphasising for weeks how difficult it would be to entirely eradicate this highly contagious virus using only public health and social measures. WHO director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he is "extremely worried over the evolving situation in China" during a weekly press conference in Geneva.