Life under lockdown in China: hospital queues and empty streets
by Lillian Yang in Beijing and Rebecca Ratcliffe from Science | The Guardian on (#4YC9A)
With resources at breaking point and a pervading sense of panic, the Chinese city of Wuhan battles coronavirus
In hospitals across Wuhan, the city at the centre of the new coronavirus outbreak, there is panic and despair. Patients wearing masks queue for hours, waiting to be called by nurses. Staff who have worked endless shifts are forced to turn many away. Pharmacies are running out of supplies.
A lack of diagnostic tests means many people do not know for sure if their fever is the new strain of coronavirus, which has killed 26 people in China and affected more than 800.
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