Kang Yan, head of West China Tianfu Hospital of Sichuan University, said that in the past three weeks, a total of 46 patients had been admitted to intensive care units, or about 1 per cent of symptomatic infections.
The emergencies area at the Zhongshan Hospital in Shanghai was packed with patients on Tuesday, a Reuters witness said.
Some were in beds in the corridor, covered with blankets and receiving IV treatment, while dozens were queuing around them, waiting to be seen by a doctor. It was unclear how many were there with COVID-19.
WHO MEETING
The WHO has urged Chinese health officials to regularly share specific and real-time information on the outbreak.
The WHO has invited Chinese scientists to present detailed data on viral sequencing at a technical advisory group meeting on Tuesday. It has also asked China to share data on hospitalizations, deaths and vaccinations.
“I don’t think China will be very sincere in disclosing information,” said Alfred Wu, associate professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at National University of Singapore.
“They would rather just keep it to themselves or they would say nothing happened, nothing is new. My own sense is that we could assume that there is nothing new … But the problem is China’s transparency issue is always there.”
The United States, France, and others will require COVID-19 tests on travellers from China, while Belgium said it would test wastewater from planes for new variants.
European Union health officials will meet on Wednesday on a coordinated response.
China will stop requiring inbound travellers to go into quarantine from Jan 8. But it will still demand a pre-departure test.
“DANGEROUS WEEKS”
As Chinese workers and shoppers fall ill, concerns mount about near-term growth prospects in the world’s second-largest economy, causing volatility in global financial markets.
A survey released on Tuesday showed China’s factory activity shrank last month.
December shipments from Foxconn’s Zhengzhou iPhone plant, disrupted by worker departures and unrest amid a COVID-19 outbreak, were 90 per cent of the firm’s initial plans.
A “bushfire” of infections in China in coming months is likely to hurt its economy this year and drag global growth lower, said the head of the International Monetary Fund, Kristalina Georgieva.
“China is entering the most dangerous weeks of the pandemic,” warned Capital Economics analysts.
Mobility data suggested that economic activity was depressed nationwide and would likely remain so until infections subside, they added.
The Ministry of Culture and Tourism said the 52.71 million domestic trips during the New Year holiday generated 26.52 billion yuan (US$3.84 billion), up 4 per cent year-on-year but were only about 35 per cent of the last pre-pandemic year in 2019.
Expectations are higher for China’s biggest holiday, Chinese New Year, later this month, when some experts predict infections will have peaked in many places.
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