China’s nursing homes are fighting an uphill battle to keep their elderly residents safe as a wave of Covid-19 infections sweeps the country following a relaxation of the government’s zero-tolerance virus policy.
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Authorities have warned of rapidly growing caseloads, and industry ministry official Zhou Jian said on Wednesday that the country was “making all-out efforts to ramp up the production of key medicines”. He said the home had ordered medical supplies “at a high price”, but they had not arrived yet after a week, with the city’s logistics network battered by infections among delivery workers.“Couriers and delivery personnel are almost all Covid positive,” he said. “Even if you disinfect or throw away all the outer packaging, plus the plastic packaging, you can’t spray disinfectant on all the food that comes in.
“As society optimises prevention and control policies, our home should in particular maintain high vigilance,” the home said in its statement.Visits to hospital fever clinics surged in the days following China’s lifting of restrictions last week, though the World Health Organization said the virus was already spreading widely in the country as “the control measures in themselves were not stopping the disease”.
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