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Less than a week after reversing its pandemic containment measures, China is experiencing a surge in COVID-19 infections that risks straining the country’s healthcare system.
Medical workers at a large hospital in downtown Beijing have been ordered back to work from their vacations, while those at least one other hospital have been asked to continue working even if they’ve been infected with mild cases of COVID-19, Bloomberg reported on Monday, citing unnamed healthcare staff.
China reported 8,838 new COVID-19 infections — including asymptomatic cases — for Sunday, according to the country’s National Health Commission — down from 10,815 on Sunday. The decline in recorded cases came after China ended mandatory mass testing a week ago, but anecdotal evidence suggests much larger numbers.
« On the ground, media reports and anecdotal evidence point to a scarcity of fever medicine as residents rush to stock up on essential drugs, » analysts at Eurasia Group, a political risk consultancy, wrote on Friday.
