PATIENTS GIVEN CPR ON THE FLOOR, DOCTORS COLLAPSE FROM EXHAUSTION
AS COVID OVERWHELMS CHINA
China is scrambling to deal with a surge in Covid cases after the government lifted its stringent virus containment policy earlier this month following widespread protests. Measures like snap lockdowns, mass testing, quarantines, and tracking were done away with.
China reported 3,101 new symptomatic Covid infections on Tuesday out of which 3,049 were domestic cases. With this, the total number of confirmed cases with symptoms reached 386,276.
Meanwhile, Beijing on Wednesday said not a single person died of Covid-19 on December 20 after changing the criteria used to record deaths due to the virus.
According to the Chinese government, only those who die directly of respiratory failure caused by the virus would be counted under the Covid death statistics.
A clip shared by a Twitter handle showed scenes of chaos in the emergency observation room at a hospital in the Chinese city of Chonqing as patients lay prone on the floor receiving chest compressions from machines and groups of doctors, according to a report in The Telegraph.
All the beds in the room appeared to be occupied by patients in a similarly severe condition, intubated and hooked up to ventilators. Other videos shared on Chinese social media showed doctors so exhausted that they fell asleep while seeing patients.