China braces for nationwide Covid spread during new year festivities (via IrishTimesWorld)
But the authorities this week acknowledged that the Chinese new year on January 22nd, when millions of people travel to see relations, will accelerate the spread of coronavirus and advised people how to respond to it.
Officials expect travellers to make more than two billion trips by road, rail, air and water over the next 40 days, twice as many as were recorded around Chinese new year in 2022. This migration will hasten the spread of the virus from major cities such as Beijing and Shanghai to second- and third-tier cities and rural areas.
“Nobody expected it to be so infectious. Wearing an N95 mask and disinfecting all the time did not stop it.”A nurse at a community hospital said that at the height of the outbreak, the pressure on major hospitals had a knock-on impact all the way down to local clinics like hers. Intensive care beds are scarce in rural China and the authorities admit that opening more intensive care units is a long-term project that cannot address the immediate challenge
Intensive care beds are scarce in rural China and the authorities admit that opening more intensive care units is a long-term project that cannot address the immediate challenge. The focus will instead be on reconfiguring existing resources to ensure that oxygen-supply systems and other equipment is adequate and deployed to the best effect.
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