Reuters – A hospital in Shanghai has told staff to prepare for heavy fighting. because it’s expected By the end of the year, about 12.5 million of the city’s residents, or half of its 25 million total, will be infected with COVID-19. As the deadly virus spreads largely unchecked in China,
Following nationwide protests and a steady rise in the number of infected people, China announced sharp policy reversals earlier this month and began phasing out a number of key measures under its policy zero-COVID.
However, the official death toll from COVID from the beginning of the epidemic to early 2020 is 5,241, which is low compared to most other countries.
Wednesday (December 21) was the second consecutive day that no COVID deaths were reported in China. Although crematorium staff said The number of applicants for the service in the past week has increased the cost of the service.
Chinese authorities, who have reduced the COVID-19 death toll, have confirmed a cumulative number of cases of 389,306, but some experts say the official figures are unreliable as fewer cases have been detected after restrictions were eased.
On Wednesday evening (December 21), Shanghai Hospital Deji posted that on the WeChat account Shanghai currently has about 5.43 million cases of COVID-19, and the number of infections is expected to reach 12.5 million by the end of 2019. year.
The post also states that this year’s Christmas Eve The upcoming New Year and Chinese New Year are not safe times. In this great battle The whole Greater Shanghai area will be defeated. All hospital staff as well as family members AND all patients will inevitably become infected with COVID.
Shanghai was previously under lockdown for two months leading up to June 1, leaving many residents without income and struggling to access essential supplies. During that time hundreds of thousands have died and hundreds of thousands have been infected with COVID.
Experts say that China could have more than 1 million deaths from COVID-19 next year. Due to the low vaccination rate among the elderly population at risk.
The vaccination rate in China is now over 90%, but the vaccination rate for adults receiving boosters has dropped to 57.9% and 42.3% for those over 80.
in a hospital in Beijing Government CCTV footage showed many elderly patients in intensive care units breathing through oxygen masks. How many people are infected with COVID?
Han Xue, deputy director of the hospital emergency department. revealed to CCTV that There are 400 new patients receiving treatment per day, which is 4 times the normal situation. And those patients are all old people with congenital diseases, fever, respiratory system infection. and severe symptoms
Meanwhile, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), told reporters that More detailed information on the severity of the disease is needed. hospitalization rate and the need for an intensive care unit to comprehensively assess the epidemic situation in China. He also supports the Chinese government in focusing on vaccinating those most at risk.
China’s policy reversal has left its fragile public health system in time to prepare. various hospitals Shortage of sick beds and blood. The pharmacy does not sell medicines. And the staff had to rush to build a special clinic.
Small towns far from rich cities on the east and south coasts are particularly vulnerable, such as Dongchuan, with a population of 700,000 in the northwestern province of Shaanxi. He announced on Wednesday that he was calling up all health workers who have retired in the past five years to join the fight against COVID-19, saying medical institutions at all levels of the city are now under intense pressure.
This was reported by the official media Local governments are trying to solve the problem of drug shortages. As pharmaceutical companies increase working hours to speed up drug production China’s state-run newspaper Global Times reported that cities across the country are distributing ibuprofen tablets to medical institutions and retailers.
Germany has also sent the first batch of BioNtech vaccine to China for its Chinese nationals. Including trying to push for citizens of other nationalities to be vaccinated by BioN Tech. This is the first time that an mRNA vaccine, thought to be the most effective against COVID-19, has been available in China, as only nine domestically developed vaccines have been approved in the past.
