Patients quarrel with doctors to access drugs that are in short supply, like cough medicines and pain killers. Medics are overloaded; infected staff continue to work because of a scarcity of personnel.
The World Bank slashed its economic growth outlook for the world’s second-largest economy, China, by almost a point and a half in its latest forecast published on Tuesday. This comes after the country's nearly three years of stringent ‘zero-Covid’ restrictions and its abrupt ease, earlier this month, following countrywide protests.
China stops releasing data on asymptomatic COVID-19 cases, saying it is impossible to monitor them accurately, with many people no longer taking PCR tests after the government significantly eased its strict "zero-COVID" policy last week.