'Total mess' in China's rural east as Covid wave hits hard

Bengbu, China (AFP) Jan 11, 2023

Exhausted doctors working overtime, tests and treatments nowhere to be found, and under-resourced clinics inundated with patients - in Anhui, one of east China's poorest provinces, Covid hit hard. Since China reversed its zero-Covid policy last month, a whirlwind of cases has crammed hospitals with elderly patients and sparked a free-for-all over limited supplies of medicine. And the co