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The abrupt change in country's Covid-19 policy has caught the country’s fragile health system unprepared.
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The abrupt change in country's Covid-19 policy has caught the country’s fragile health system unprepared.
CHINA SAYS NO NEW COVID DEATHS AFTER CHANGING CRITERIA
By Thomas Peter and Alessandro Diviggiano
After three years' hard effort to keep the COVID-19 at bay, China has optimized its virus responses recently. The Global Times has talked with front line medical workers, grass-roots community workers and others about their experience in the three-year battle. These people believe that the three years' effort that has traded time until the variants became less lethal and has helped prevent most people from being exposed to dangerous variants, was worth the wait.
Hospitals should expand ICU beds as a priority, with COVID peak expected to last until end of January, expert says.