Doctors in China's Countryside Face Wave of Infections With Scarce Medical ResourcesChina's COVID-19 infections have rapidly spread to the countryside and small towns and concerns are mounting about the Chinese lunar new year that will fall on Jan. 22, 2023, when a large number of holiday travelers are expected as people return to their hometowns for the celebration.
As hospitals in big cities are overwhelmed by the sudden increase of COVID-19 patients in December, the situation outside the cities is even more worrisome, due to the large rural population and the lack of medical resources.
“Caijing,” a mainland China state-controlled media, said on Dec. 24 that it recently interviewed local residents, pharmacies, and hospital staff in small cities and towns in Shandong, Jiangxi, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Anhui, Hubei, Yunnan, Hebei and other provinces about the local situation....
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