Shanghai hospital emergency ward overflows amid China's Covid outbreak [German Version]
Video and reporting by Vivian Lin | 23 December 2022
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Elderly patients lined the wards of hospitals in major cities in China Thursday as the country battled a wave of COVID cases.
In Shanghai, the corridors of an emergency department were lined with stretchers filled with elderly people hooked up to oxygen tanks.
An AFP reporter counted at least 15 such patients spilling out from the wards into the hallway, some with suitcases next to their trolleys.
Swaddled in colourful duvets, they wheezed weakly through their masks as medical workers attended to them, many appearing mostly unresponsive.
Some of their visitors set up camp chairs next to the makeshift beds.
Staff and visitors did not respond to questions from AFP.