BENGBU, China: Exhausted doctors working overtime, tests and treatments nowhere to be found, and underresourced clinics inundated with patients. In Anhui, one of the poorest provinces in eastern China, the coronavirus hit hard.

Since China reversed its zero-Covid policy last month, a whirlwind of infections has crammed hospitals with elderly patients and sparked a free-for-all over limited supplies of medicine.

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