Covid-19 Scare in China Grips the Internet as Videos of Flooded Hospitals, Streets Go Viral
Last updated: December 21, 2022, 2:19 PM IST
Covid-19 has hit China once again and the situation could not be worse. Internet in fear after videos of hospitals and streets go viral (Photo Credits: Twitter)
With such a massive increase in Covid-19 cases in China, hospitals have been flooded and crematoria have piled up corpses. Videos of horrific scenes from Chinese hospitals and streets are going viral.
Not so far from the days when hospitals were flooded with Covid-19 patients and crematoria piled up corpses for last rites. The Covid pandemic was indeed a nightmare that one could never imagine again. Well, China was left with no choice as the alarm bells for the Covid-19 scare started ringing in the country with several being infected with the new coronavirus. The story does not end here! It was only after an ease in the zero-Covid policy that cases increased so rapidly that an epidemiologist, Eric Feigl-Ding, predicted that more than 60% of China and 10% of the Earth’s population would be infected in the next three months would be infected. “This is just a start,” he noted.
It looks like the Covid-19 situation in China couldn’t get any more dangerous with several videos of corpses piled up in the hospitals being shared on the internet. From overloaded crematoria to people dressed in PPE kit taking to the streets to distance the infected from their families, clips of China’s local scenes have gone viral on social media. People also shared techniques from the Chinese population to protect themselves from the deadly virus. With such a dire warning from China three years after the virus first hit the world, people are left confused and scared at the same time because ‘not again!’
⚠️THERMONUCLAKE BAD—Hospitals have been completely overwhelmed in China since restrictions came down. Epidemiologist estimate that >60% of & 10% of the earth’s population is likely to be infected over the next 90 days. Deaths likely in the millions—plural. This is just the beginning-pic.twitter.com/VAEvF0ALg9— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) December 19, 2022
To add to the concern, China’s National Health Commission has stated that the R number (which tells an average of how many people a sick person can infect for the current variant) is higher than all previous Covid-19 waves that have hit the world. to date. It is therefore also expected that the situation will worsen with Christmas and New Year around the corner. With a rapid rise in Covid-19 infections in the world’s second largest economy, the fear is not only about the spread of the virus globally, but also how it will limit the global supply chain and ultimately slow economic recovery in China and therefore, the world.
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