
In China's 'zero-Covid' lockdowns, patients with other diseases are struggling to survive
CNN
On a cold March afternoon in a locked-down city in China's northeastern Jilin province, Chang Liping was standing outside a hospital, desperate and unsure of where to go.
Chang had been struggling to get her husband, who suffers from a kidney condition, into dialysis for four days -- a routine treatment that's become a seeming impossibility after their city of Changchun was forced into a strict lockdown earlier that month, in response to an outbreak of Covid-19.

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