According to the World Health Organization (WHO), hospitals in China look to be getting busier as worries about a new COVID-19 epidemic hitting the nation grow.
ICUs are busy, according to Dr. Michael Ryan, despite claims from administrators that they are “very few” in number.
China’s official statistics indicate that no one passed away from COVID on Wednesday, but doubts persist about the disease’s true toll.
As the latest COVID surge strikes China, hospitals in Beijing and other places have been filling up recently.
Since 2020, China has imposed severe health restrictions as part of its “zero COVID” strategy.
But because they were hurting the economy so much, the government stopped doing most of these things two weeks ago.
Since then, there have been more cases than ever before. This has raised concerns about a high death rate among older people, who are especially vulnerable.
Despite the increase, the official statistics indicate that only five individuals died on Tuesday and two on Monday from COVID.
So, Dr. Ryan, who is in charge of the WHO’s emergency response, has asked China for more information about the most recent virus outbreak.
“Relatively few instances of ICUs have been published in China, but anecdotally, ICUs are filling up,” he said.
We’ve been saying for weeks that it would be hard to get rid of this highly contagious virus using only public health and social measures.
Dr. Ryan further stated in Geneva that “vaccination is the exit route.”
A lot of the rest of the world uses mRNA vaccinations, but China has created and produced its own vaccines that have been proven to be less efficient at preventing major COVID sickness and death than those vaccines.
He said these things on the same day that the German government announced that China had gotten the first shipment of BioNTech Covid-19 vaccines.
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