BEIJING—China’s National Health Commission scaled down its daily Covid-19 report starting Wednesday in response to a sharp decline in PCR testing since the government eased anti-virus measures after daily cases hit record highs.
Beijing’s streets have grown eerily quiet, with lines forming outside fever clinics—the number of which has been increased from 94 to 303—and at pharmacies, where cold and flu medications are harder to find. A few kilometers south, at Chaoyang Hospital, about a dozen people waited in a line of blue tents, deflecting winds amid subzero temperatures. One person in the queue took out a bottle of disinfectant and sprayed it around her as she waited.
Since Tuesday, the US consulates in the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang and the central city of Wuhan have been offering only emergency services “in response to increased number of Covid-19 cases,” the State Department said. Hospitals have also reportedly been struggling to remain staffed, while packages were piling up at distribution points because of a shortage of China’s ubiquitous motorized tricycle delivery drivers.
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