(ANSA) - ROME, DECEMBER 20 - China is rushing to increase intensive care beds, the number of doctors available and stocks of medicines as Covid infections are on the rise: state media report it, as reported by the Guardian .
While CNN publishes data from a new study according to which China's abrupt exit from restrictions could cause nearly 1 million deaths, as the country prepares to face an unprecedented wave of infections that spread from big cities to vast rural areas.
"The wave of infections would probably overload many local health systems across the country," reads the analysis (made by three professors from the University of Hong Kong).
The curve of the number of cases of Coronavirus in the country has suddenly risen for about two weeks, when the government, following the protests, decided to dismantle the strict zero-Covid regime.
Authorities have admitted it is "impossible" for the system to track the number of newly infected and the official tally runs counter to reports of deaths and the increased work of funeral homes.
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