Overcrowded wards, patients abandoned on stretchers, others even treated on the sidewalk because there are no spaces in the structures. The emergency covid in China it’s getting more and more dramatic. And the hardest hit city would be shanghai: As of last month, 70% of the population, about 18 million people, would have contracted the virus. Agence France-Press visited two hospitals in the city and reported hundreds of patients, many of whom were elderly, stretched out on stretchers. And older people in particular with coughs and severe breathing difficulties overload the services.
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The drama of the hospitals
Those affected will be hooked up to oxygen tanks and IVs and hooked up to heart monitors. They are the happiest because there are those who are treated sui sidewalksoutside the buildings. According to a new study, the rise in infections is declining covid that has traversed China may already have peaked in some of the country’s largest cities, including Shanghai and Beijing. The analysis, published Dec. 29 in the peer-reviewed journal Frontiers of Medicine, says mathematical models predicted the latest wave of infections would hit major Chinese cities by late 2022, while rural areas benefited from the surge in infections between the two will be affected in mid and late January. Circulation could be “dramatically increased” by planned trips during the upcoming Spring Festival, the national holiday of the Lunar New Year, which falls on January 22.
The Beijing Threats (and No to Vaccines)
Meanwhile today Beijing today condemned the imposition of Covid tests by a dozen countries (including Italy) on travelers from the China, and warned that she could take “countermeasures” in retaliation. “Some countries have introduced entry restrictions aimed exclusively at Chinese travelers. This has no scientific basis and some practices are unacceptable,” said Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning, adding that China could “take countermeasures based on the principle of reciprocity.”
The EU offered China free of charge vaccinations against Covid-19 to help Beijing contain the spread of the epidemic in the country after restrictions ended. But a sharp “no” came from China: “China has built the world’s largest production lines for Covid vaccines, with an annual production capacity of more than 7 billion doses and an annual output of more than 5.5 billion doses, covering the needs that all.” Vaccination-eligible people have access to Covid vaccines,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning said. «The Covid situation in China is predictable and under control. We stand ready to work in solidarity with the international community and face the challenge more effectively,” he added.
The movements of the EU
However, tomorrow at European level there is a meeting of the Integrated Political Response Mechanism (IPCR), a meeting convened by the Council with a more political character and aiming to ensure coordination between EU countries. The mechanism is usually convened on the initiative of the Council Presidency or at the request of a Member State, with the participation of representatives of the Commission and the Member States concerned. Since March 2020 he has had regular meetings on the Covid pandemic.