With pandemic-related restrictions now eased in China, Covid-19 virus has once again resurfaced and ravaged the country. Moreover, experts have raised concerns over the narrow definition being used by the Chinese government for counting the number of deaths due to the virus. A Chinese health official had earlier confirmed that China only counts deaths from pneumonia or respiratory failure in its official COVID-19 death toll.
Updated: 23 Dec 2022 3:38 pm
A patient is wheeled through the emergency room at the Zhuozhou Hospital in Zhuozhou city of the Baoding prefecture in northern China's Hebei province. Nearly three years after it was first identified in China, the coronavirus is now spreading through the vast country. Experts predict difficult months ahead for its 1.4 billion people.
Visitors wait in the emergency department at the Baoding No. 2 Central Hospital in Zhuozhou city in northern China's Hebei province.
Workers unload a body from a vehicle for cremation at Gaobeidian Funeral Home in northern China's Hebei province.
Family members light fireworks offering for their deceased relative at Gaobeidian Funeral Home in northern China's Hebei province.
Family members burn paper offering for their deceased relative at Gaobeidian Funeral Home in northern China's Hebei province.
Workers in protective clothing assist passengers from a flight coming from outside China with their luggage to be quarantined at a resort on the outskirts of Beijing.
A patient is turned away from the emergency room due to full capacity at the Baoding No. 2 Central Hospital in Zhuozhou city in northern China's Hebei province.
Patients recover at the Baoding No. 2 Central Hospital in Zhuozhou city in northern China's Hebei province.
Nurses work at a desk at the Zhuozhou Hospital in Zhuozhou city in northern China's Hebei province.
A man squats outside a treatment room as an elderly person receives help with breathing via a manual ventilator pump at the emergency department of the Baoding No. 2 Central Hospital in Zhuozhou city in northern China's Hebei province.
Visitors line up at the cash counters in Baoding No. 2 Central Hospital in Zhuozhou city in northern China's Hebei province.