Elderly patients lined the wards of hospitals in major cities in China Thursday as the country battled a wave of COVID-19 cases. The virus is surging across China in an outbreak authorities say is impossible to track after the end of mandatory mass testing.
COVID-19 patients lie on stretchers in the emergency ward of the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University in China's southwestern city of Chongqing on December 22, 2022. Noel Celis/ AFPElderly patients lined the wards of hospitals in major cities in China Thursday as the country battledThe virus is surging across China in an outbreak authorities say is impossible to track after the end of mandatory mass testing.
The old man waited half an hour to be treated, while in a nearby room AFP saw six other people in sick beds surrounded by harried doctors and relatives. In Shanghai, the corridors of an emergency department were lined with stretchers filled with elderly people hooked up to oxygen tanks. Dozens of bereaved relatives milled around in groups, some carrying wooden urns, as funeral gongs sounded and mourners burned incense.
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