Panic situation continued after infections have already spreading in rural
parts of China after reports videos were viral on social media. A large
number of villages witnessed as small clinics and nursing homes already
overwhelmed with patients with symptoms of covid.
After the new variant led to outbreak of covid, analysts expect over a
500 million people living in rural China could face a wave of Covid-19
infections in the next coming weeks as millions of migrant labourers
returned to their native villages for the Lunar New Year (LNY) holidays in
January. further, the government also rolled back travelling restrictions
earlier this month.As still vaccination could n’t reach majority population and spread
over a large territory with limited medical resources was impact on rural
China with fast spreading Omicron-driven pandemic in the country.
parts of China after reports videos were viral on social media. A large
number of villages witnessed as small clinics and nursing homes already
overwhelmed with patients with symptoms of covid.
After the new variant led to outbreak of covid, analysts expect over a
500 million people living in rural China could face a wave of Covid-19
infections in the next coming weeks as millions of migrant labourers
returned to their native villages for the Lunar New Year (LNY) holidays in
January. further, the government also rolled back travelling restrictions
earlier this month.As still vaccination could n’t reach majority population and spread
over a large territory with limited medical resources was impact on rural
China with fast spreading Omicron-driven pandemic in the country.
Case surges (have) begun to sweep rural areas, where the medical system
is relatively weaker, the state-run Global Times (GT) tabloid reported this
week. Shortages of medicines and medical staff are the major problems they
are facing, GT reported.
“County-level medical resources are very limited and it is impossible to
count on external support as before impact on rural medical system may face
a ‘double blow’,” Lu Dewen, a professor at Wuhan University’s School of
Sociology wrote earlier this week on China’s Twitter-like Weibo platform.
