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'ICU is full': Medical staff on frontline of China's COVID fight say hospitals are 'overwhelmed'

‘ICU is full’: Medical staff on frontline of China’s COVID fight say hospitals are ‘overwhelmed’

BEIJING, Dec 26 (Reuters) – In more than three decades of emergency medicine, Beijing doctor Howard Bernstein said he had never seen anything like it. Patients arrive at his hospital in ever-increasing numbers; almost all are elderly and many are very sick with symptoms of COVID and pneumonia, he said. Bernstein’s account mirrors similar testimony …

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China's healthcare system put to the test as COVID brakes fade

China’s healthcare system put to the test as COVID brakes fade

BAODING, China, Dec 11 (Reuters) – When Li tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday in Baoding, northern China, he prepared for a five-day quarantine at a local makeshift hospital in the under the country’s strict pandemic controls. Instead, China the next day abruptly relaxed the policy that made the world’s most populous country an outlier …

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Iran's Guards Chief Warns Protesters: 'Today is the Last Day of Riots'

Iran’s Guards Chief Warns Protesters: ‘Today is the Last Day of Riots’

Elite Force Commander issues one of the starkest warnings yet Rights groups report new protests and bloodshed Revolutionary Guards not deployed since protests began DUBAI, Oct 29 (Reuters) – The leader of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guards has warned protesters that Saturday will be their last day to take to the streets in the clearest sign …

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