As international health experts expected 2.1 million COVID-19 deaths in the following months, China's funeral homes and hospitals have reported being swamped.
The reception team of emergency calls for ambulances in Beijing has been expanded in Beijing in order to save more lives amid the COVID explosion this winter.
As soon as China ended its centralized COVID testing and lifted its primary public health restrictions, COVID cases have begun to surge rapidly across the population. Hospitals in major metropolitan cities are reporting long lines of patients seeking treatment.