China’s current surge in cases started ‘long before’ restrictions were lifted, WHO says
“The explosion of cases in China had started long before any easing of the zero-Covid policy,” WHO emergencies chief Michael Ryan said on Wednesday. “There’s a narrative that, in some way, China lifted the restrictions and all of a sudden, the disease is out of control,” he added at the UN health agency’s headquarters in Geneva.
In Sichuan, a doctor surnamed Li told Reuters that their tertiary hospital was “overwhelmed with patients”. Claims of rampant infections among hospital staff are also spreading across social media. One Chongqing resident said primary care in their city had “imploded”.
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