Reports of Chinese hospital that was overcrowded due to the COVID-19 breakout, causing more death in the mainland.
China Hospital Runs Out of Beds, Rooms
In the corridors of health facilities in Beijing, China's capital city, sick people, the majority of whom are older, have been lying on gurneys and getting oxygen while sitting in wheelchairs, reported Republic World.
Last Thursday, the east of the city's Chuiyangliu hospital was congested with recent arrivals patients. And although ambulance crews continued to take those in need, all rooms were taken by noon time. Most urgent incidents have been triaged rapidly by overstressed doctors and nurses.
The uptick in critically ill patients requiring hospital treatment emerged after China was forced to abandon the most stringent global epidemic restrictions last quarter. Nearly three years of lockdowns, travel restrictions, and closings used to hurt the economy and prompted protest marches never seen since the late 1980s.
Furthermore, the European Union "actively urged" its member countries, on Wednesday, to necessitate pre-departure COVID-19 screening of travelers from China.
EU nations have placed a wide range of prohibitions on visitors from China in the last week, having broken their previous commitment to behave collectively, noted AP News.
Italy is the first member of the bloc to demand coronavirus tests for air travelers who arrived from China in 2020 because of the high death toll that country has faced; nevertheless, Spain and France followed quickly by adopting their policies. It occurred as a consequence of the US demanding that all Chinese passengers reveal a negative test outcome within the preceding 48 hours of departing.
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China had also warned of "countermeasures" if any such policies were foisted across the bloc, mentioned Yahoo.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the World Health Organization, voiced alarm last Wednesday about the utter lack of outbreak data from the Chinese government.
COVID-19 Breakout Threatens Older People in China
The Chinese government is trying to vax the majority of senior citizens, but the prevalence of scandals with fake medicines has affected the elderly worse, citing NY1.
Many of the local vaccines are thought to be less effective than mRNA jabs like the ones in the west.
WHO Calls China To Reveal Accurate COVID-19 Data
To use an "extremely limited" definition of COVID mortalities, a senior World Health Organization (WHO) representative has heavily criticized China's statistical numbers for underplaying the real effects of the coronavirus epidemic in the country.
Mike Ryan, WHO's emergencies director, spoke to reporters last Wednesday, stating that the numbers given by the Chinese government are not reflective of the actual effect of the disease as hospitals are getting stretched, with too many ICU admissions and many deaths, per Al Jazeera.
These reactions came as many destinations for Chinese travelers have locked down any entry via travel prohibitions; due to the outbreak in the mainland. Many hospitals and crematoriums are logged shut by the number of sick, dying, and those dead from the virus. Such a deluge comes as the Chinese government has lifted its policy of three years already.
In Shanghai, a senior doctor said that 70% might be sick with COVID-19 last Tuesday, as Chinese hospitals does not have enough space brought by the COVID-19 breakout, registering more cases.
