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Beijing on Monday said the city's medicine supplies have faced great pressure at short notice, as the capital's second-class hospitals reported 19,000 patients with flu-like symptoms last week, 6.2 times higher than in the previous week.
One of China's top epidemiologists surfaced warning that "it is not yet the time" to lift Chinese coronavirus civil rights restrictions.
After China released 10 new measures aimed at further optimizing its COVID-19 response, top Chinese epidemiologists predicted this wave of infection will peak within a month. To cope with the possible surging number of caseloads, hospitals nationwide have upped the preparation of ICU beds and medical workers, as well as restructuring hospitals to make sure patients in need get timely treatment, as well as preventing the medical system from being overloaded.
China on Friday issued a working plan on health services for COVID-19 key groups to optimize tiered medical services for various groups of people. On the same day, the State Council joint prevention and control mechanism vowed to optimize medical resources and strengthen severe-illness treatment capacity, including upgrading makeshift hospitals.
The new measures in China limit the lockdown to individual apartment floors and buildings, rather than entire districts and neighbourhoods.