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A report this week estimated that about 5,000 people were dying in China a day as a result of Chinese coronavirus infections.

China has reduced testing and stopped reporting most mild COVID cases. China is among a few countries that managed to stop most domestic transmission of the virus in 2020, but it’s the last to end restrictions.

As China grapples with its first-ever national COVID-19 wave, emergency wards in small cities and towns southwest of Beijing are overwhelmed.

A very hard road ahead for China as Covid-19 cases spiral

With intensive care units overwhelmed, patients are forced to go to bigger cities for treatment.

Packed ICUs, crowded crematoriums: Covid roils Chinese towns

Experts have forecast between a million and 2 million deaths next year.

Nearly three years after the coronavirus was first identified in China and an unyielding "zero-COVID" approach, it is now spreading through the country after an abrupt reopening on Dec. 7 caught the nation under-vaccinated and short on hospital capacity. Experts have forecasted between a million and 2 million deaths next year.

As China grapples with its first-ever national COVID wave, emergency wards in small cities and towns southwest of Beijing are overwhelmed

The Chinese government has reported only seven Covid-19 deaths since restrictions were loosened dramatically on December 7, bringing the countrys total toll to 5,241.