Uncomfortable videos from China show patients being treated on the floor while bodies pile up.
After the government withdrew the zero-covid policy, China is currently experiencing one of the worst periods of the Covid-19 epidemic, with cases and deaths skyrocketing to all-time highs and experts anticipating the death toll will reach 1 million.
Even if the WHO website lists an official death toll of 31,585 and 28,493 new cases in the past 24 hours, these numbers don’t correspond to the bleak pictures of human tragedy that are emerging from the nation. This raises doubts about the government’s desire to offer an accurate picture.
Several Chinese towns are reportedly dealing with peaks in cases, packed hospitals and crematoriums, and bare medication shelves after the Xi government abruptly ended the zero-COVID regime earlier this month. Beijing has acknowledged that since the required mass testing was discontinued, it is “difficult” to track the extent of the outbreak.
Small towns and cities are severely hit, and emergency rooms are having a difficult time keeping up with the huge surge of critical cases. Ambulances and patients receiving floor treatment are being turned away by hospitals.
“According to Beijing-based physician Howard Bernstein, the hospital is just overburdened from top to bottom, and the ICU is full. A large number of them were admitted to the hospital. People continue to visit the ER since there is no flow and they won’t get better in a day or two, but they are unable to ascend to the hospital rooms because of this “he stated. “They’ve been confined to the ER for days.” He added some more.
One of the images that has gone viral on social media is a hospital ICU room that is overcrowded with patients being treated on the floor. The patient in the picture is lying on the floor with wires linked to him; this is probably because there aren’t many beds available, and two doctors are attending to the patient there.
Videos of remains stacked up at the cremation criticise the government’s zero death hoax outright.
After ending nearly three years of isolation, China’s airports are currently congested with travelers waiting to leave the nation. In a swift action late on Monday, China announced that beginning on January 8, visitors will no longer be needed to quarantine upon arrival, significantly relaxing the strict coronavirus rules that had crippled its economy and provoked widespread unrest.