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