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CHONGQING, China (AFP) – “Deceased, deceased,” a staffer in full protective gear shouted as she handed a nurse a death certificate, their hospital in central China overflowing with Covid patients. China is battling a wave of infections that has hit the elderly hard, but has officially logged only a handful of deaths from the coronavirus after the government redefined the criteria by which Covid deaths are counted. At No. 5 People’s Hospital in Chongqing, the main […]
by Laurie CHEN and Vivian LIN in Shanghai Agence France-Presse CHONGQING, China (AFP) — Elderly patients lined the wards of hospitals in major cities in China Thursday as the country battled a wave of Covid cases. The virus is surging across the vast Asian nation in an outbreak authorities say is impossible to track after the end of mandatory mass testing. And with cases soaring, Washington called on Beijing to share its Covid outbreak data, […]
BEIJING, China (CCTV) — Rescuers freed two men from a truck stranded in the middle of a flooded river Sunday afternoon in Chongqing Municipality of southwest China. In Fengjie County, water level increased in the rivers due to continuous heavy rainstorm. The truck got stranded when the driver tried to cross the raging river without realizing the risk involved. When firefighters arrived, they found the truck stranded one kilometer away from the shoreline, while the […]
