{"id":51287,"date":"2022-12-20T16:21:09","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T07:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/20\/china-rushes-to-boost-intensive-care-beds-doctors-and-stocks-of-medicine-as-covid-surges"},"modified":"2022-12-20T16:21:09","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T07:21:09","slug":"china-rushes-to-boost-intensive-care-beds-doctors-and-stocks-of-medicine-as-covid-surges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51287","title":{"rendered":"China rushes to boost intensive care beds, doctors and stocks of medicine as Covid surges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State media reports on increased efforts to boost health infrastructure, staffing and supplies<\/p>\n<p>Chinese authorities are rushing to boost the number of intensive care beds and health workers and increase medication supplies as Covid-19 surges through the country.<\/p>\n<p>Since the abrupt dismantling of the stringent zero-Covid regime, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/19\/china-covid-waves-winter-cities-quiet\">cases have skyrocketed in China<\/a>. A full picture of the impact is difficult to gauge. Authorities have conceded it is \u201cimpossible\u201d for the testing system to keep track, and the narrow parameters for attributing deaths to the virus mean the official count \u2013 fewer than 10 this week \u2013 is at odds with widespread anecdotal reports of fatalities and high traffic at funeral homes.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/20\/china-rushes-to-boost-intensive-care-beds-doctors-and-stocks-of-medicine-as-covid-surges\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State media reports on increased efforts to boost health infrastructure, staffing and suppliesChinese authorities are rushing to boost the number of intensive care beds and health workers and increase medication supplies as Covid-19 surges through the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,1066,914,512,916],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-medical-research","category-microbiology"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51288,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51287\/revisions\/51288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}