COVID-19 cases have spread quickly in China after its Zero Covid policy was withdrawn.
Scenes from the COVID-19 situation in Beijing and Chengdu:
IMAGE: Medical workers attend to patients at the fever clinic at the China-Japan Friendship hospital in Beijing. Photograph: China Daily via Reuters
IMAGE: Patients line up for treatment at the emergency department at the Beijing Chaoyang hospital. Photograph: China Daily via Reuters
IMAGE: Medical workers attend to patients at the intensive care unit at the Beijing Chaoyang hospital. Photograph: China Daily via Reuters
IMAGE: A family member consults a doctor outside an emergency department at a hospital in Chengdu, Sichuan province. Photograph: Tingshu Wang/Reuters
IMAGE: People transport a patient on a stretcher outside an emergency department at a hospital in Chengdu. Photograph: Tingshu Wang/Reuters
IMAGE: Medical workers transport an elderly patient in Chengdu. Photograph: Tingshu Wang/Reuters
IMAGE: A worker sorts a stretcher bed near an ambulance outside an emergency department at a hospital in Chengdu. Photograph: Tingshu Wang/Reuters
IMAGE: People wait outside the emergency department at a hospital in Chengdu. Photograph: Tingshu Wang/Reuters
Photographs curated by Manisha Kotian/Rediff.com
Feature Presentation: Rajesh Alva/Rediff.com
