A Shanghai hospital has told its staff to prepare for a “tragic battle” with COVID-19 as it expects half of the city’s 25 million people will get infected by the end of next week, while the virus sweeps through China largely unchecked.
After widespread protests against strict mitigation measures, China this month began dismantling its “zero-COVID” regime, which had taken a great financial and psychological toll on its 1.4 billion people.GETTY IMAGES
Infections in China are likely to be more than a million a day with deaths at more than 5000 a day, a “stark contrast” from official data, British-based health data firm Airfinity said this week. On Thursday, many areas of Shanghai were almost as deserted as back then, with many residents isolating themselves and businesses forced to shut as staff fell ill.“All our employees are sick,” said a supermarket worker surnamed Wang as he was shutting the doors. He said he hoped to reopen on December 30.
Footage from a Beijing hospital on CCTV state television showed rows of elderly patients in the intensive care unit breathing through oxygen masks. It was not clear how many of them had COVID.
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