Elderly Patients Fill Hospitals In China's Cities Amid Covid Outbreak
NDTV
Millions of elderly people across China are still not fully vaccinated, raising concerns that the virus may kill the most vulnerable citizens in huge numbers.
Elderly patients lined the wards of hospitals in major cities in China Thursday as the country battled a wave of Covid cases.
The virus is surging across China in an outbreak authorities say is impossible to track after the end of mandatory mass testing.
Attached to a breathing tube under a pile of blankets, an old man racked with Covid-19 lay groaning on a stretcher in the emergency department of a hospital in central China Thursday.
A paramedic at Chongqing Medical University First Affiliated Hospital, who confirmed the old man was a Covid patient, said he had picked up more than 10 people a day, 80 to 90 percent of whom were infected with coronavirus.
