Local governments and hospitals all around the nation are optimising medical services and resource allocation to deal with a likely rise in patients and to better care for the elderly and the most vulnerable populations, mirroring China’s new COVID-19 prevention and control guidelines.

The nation unveiled 20 new countermeasures to COVID-19 on November 11. On December 7, ten further fresh steps were also announced in an effort to improve China’s anti-COVID-19 strategy.

These approaches optimise the use of medical resources so that COVID-19 patients receive top attention.

People have been waiting in line for hours to enter wards for fever in certain hospitals in major cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, and Wuhan, due to the latest forms of Omicron spreading quickly and having a high transmissibility.

Local governments and hospitals are modernising current temporary hospitals, increasing intensive care beds, and more effectively allocating medical resources to prevent panic and strain on medical resources.

Source: Prnewswire