China's COVID-19 Surge Raises Odds Of New Mutant Coronavirus Variant
The country has seen an explosion of COVID-19 cases since largely abandoning its "zero COVID" policy.
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The country has seen an explosion of COVID-19 cases since largely abandoning its "zero COVID" policy.
As China grapples with its first national COVID-19 wave, emergency wards in small cities and towns southwest of Beijing are overwhelmed, while emergency rooms are turning away ambulances in central Hebei province.
Many hospitals have been overwhelmed with patients since China drastically eased its COVID-19 restrictions earlier this month.
China is in the grips of its first national wave of COVID cases, and the deadly spread has left ICUs and crematoriums full.
About three years ago, the original version of the coronavirus spread from China to the rest of the world and was eventually replaced by the delta variant, then omicron and its descendants.