The Omicron variant is surging weeks after the authorities abruptly ended their zero-COVID policy.
branch of the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission on Saturday urged young people in particular to avoid crowded gatherings, due to the ease of spreading the coronavirus and low temperatures.
While many have welcomed the easing, families and the health system were unprepared for the resulting surge of infections. Hospitals are scrambling for beds and blood, pharmacies for drugs and authorities are racing to build clinics. "I originally planned to go to Shanghai for Christmas but now I can only lie in bed," a person wrote on Weibo, China's Twitter-like social network.
Bloomberg News reported on Friday that nearly 37 million people may have been infected with Covid on a single day this past week, citing estimates from the government's top health authority.
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