As Covid spreads rapidly across China, elderly care homes are barricading their doors in an attempt to save their vulnerable patients.
AS Covid spreads rapidly across China, elderly care homes are barricading their doors in an attempt to save their vulnerable patients.
“It’s just the start of a real tough time,” read a statement from Pudong Shinan Nursing Home in Shanghai explaining its new rules this week. “When the experts say 80 percent-90 percent of the population will eventually get infected, we are scared!” The cost of such hesitation may be large. China could see some 5 million people hospitalized and up to 700,000 deaths after abandoning Covid Zero, according to Bloomberg Intelligence chief pharmaceutical analyst Sam Fazeli.
“Logic doesn’t seem to apply here,” Bloomberg Intelligence’s chief pharmaceutical analyst Sam Fazeli said in a TV interview. China’s mindset since pivoting away from Covid Zero is “there’s not so much we can do, we’ve done the best we can. We’ve got the blueprint for what the West did and what happened, so let’s just let it rip—which is what I think is going on,” Fazeli said.
The tough measures weighed on the world’s second-largest economy and disrupted people’s lives, culminating in a remarkable weekend of protests across China’s major cities.
Philippines Latest News, Philippines Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
WHO ‘very concerned’ aboutsevere Covid reports in China - BusinessMirrorGENEVA—The head of the World Health Organization said the agency is “very concerned” about rising reports of severe coronavirus disease across China after the country largely abandoned its “zero Covid” policy, warning that its lagging vaccination rate could result in large numbers of vulnerable people getting infected. At a press briefing on Wednesday, WHO Director-General
Read more »
Chinese with mild Covid urged to work as restrictions ease - BusinessMirrorBEIJING—Several local governments in China encouraged people with mild cases of Covid-19 to go to work this week, another sign of the difficulty the country faces as its rollback of virus-containment measures sets off a wave of infections —and a growing number of deaths. Health authorities reported Tuesday that five people died in the latest
Read more »
China’s Covid wave spurs new variant worry as sequencing falls - BusinessMirrorThe tsunami of Covid-19 that’s taking hold across China is spurring concern that a dangerous new variant could emerge for the first time in more than a year, just as genetic sequencing to catch such a threat is dwindling. The situation in China is unique because of the path it’s followed throughout the pandemic. While
Read more »
China authorities take over medical supplies production as COVID-19 cases surgeChina has requisitioned medical supplies production across the country as millions struggle to obtain basic drugs and testing kits in the face of a surge in COVID-19 cases.
Read more »
Xi tells Russia’s Medvedev that China wants talks on Ukraine - BusinessMirrorChinese President Xi Jinping told former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that his nation would like to see talks on Ukraine, comments that come as Beijing tries to improve ties with Europe. Xi told Medvedev in Beijing that his administration has been “actively promoting peace and talks,” according to state broadcaster China Central Television. “China hopes
Read more »