Monitoring Desk
ISLAMABAD: World Health Organization (WHO) has said that Hospitals in China appear to be filling up amid concerns about a fresh Covid-19 wave hitting the country.
Dr. Michael Ryan said that Intensive Care Units (ICU) are busy despite authorities saying numbers are relatively low. China’s data shows no one died of Covid on Wednesday but there has been skepticism about the disease’s real impact. According to the BBC, now-a-days, hospitals in Beijing and other main cities were filling up as the latest Covid surge hits China.
Since 2020, China has imposed strict health restrictions as part of its zero Covid policies. But, the China government has terminated most of those measures two weeks ago after the landmark protests against the strict controls. The number of covid cases has since soared, increasing fears of the high mortality rate among the elderly, who are particularly vulnerable.
WHO Emergencies Chief
Despite the rise, the official data shows five persons died from Covid on Tuesday and two died on Monday. It has led to the WHO emergencies chief Dr. Ryan urging China to provide more data about the latest spread of the covid virus.
He said that in China, what’s has been reported is relatively low numbers of the covid cases in ICUs, but anecdotally ICUs are filling up. China has developed and produced its own covid vaccines, which has shown to be less effective at protecting people against serious Covid illness and death than the mRNA vaccines used at much of the rest of the international level.
German vaccines have to be administered initially to expats in China estimated at about 20,000. It is the first foreign Covid-19 vaccine to be received in China, although no details have been released about the time and the size of the delivery.
