China: Authorities direct doctors, nurses to keep working despite being COVID-19 infected
Beijing: Chinese authorities have directed doctors and nurses, who are infected with COVID-19, to keep working as the country is continuing to witness a surge in infection.
The country is reportedly witnessing a spike in cases amid the reduction of restrictions.
A senior World Health Organization official told The Guardian on Wednesday that China’s flare-up started “long before” restrictions were lifted, but since the sudden shift in policy major cities in Beijing appear to have experienced a huge surge in cases of Covid-19.
Authorities have said it is “impossible” to measure since most people are not being tested.
“The explosion of cases in China had started long before any easing of the zero-Covid policy,” WHO emergencies chief Michael Ryan was quoted as saying by the newspaper on Wednesday.
“There’s a narrative that, in some way, China lifted the restrictions and all of a sudden, the disease is out of control,” he added at the UN health agency’s headquarters in Geneva.
China had imposed severe COVID-19 restrictions for the past several months which triggered widespread protests.
IBNS
Senior Staff Reporter at Northeast Herald, covering news from Tripura and Northeast India.
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