Covid wave hits Anhui, causes 'total mess'

By Agence France-Presse

Jan 12, 2023 12:16 am

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.

DESCENT INTO SADNESS Travelers ride the escalator at a train station in the city of Bengbu, Anhui province, eastern China on Jan. 5, 2023. AFP PHOTO

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