Hospitals in Shanghai are overwhelmed and are forced to treat patients in hallways amid surge in Covid cases. Expert says around one million deaths 'quite possible' in China.

Hospitals in Shanghai runs out of beds amid grim death projections

Authorities in Shanghai have urged residents to stay home this weekend, seeking a lowkey Christmas celebration this time as China battles an intensifying spread of Covid.

Shanghai urges residents to stay at home on Christmas as Covid cases surge

Shanghai’s authorities on Monday (May 30) have announced that some of the COVID-19 lockdown measures put on businesses will be eased from Wednesday (June 1). Not just this, the two-month lockdown came to an end allowing the residents in virus-free sections of the city, BBC reported.

COVID-19: Shanghai to lift restrictions for businesses

With Beijing now facing the scourge of resurgent COVID-19 virus, the officials have decided to halt public transport in the capital city to avoid Shanghai’s fate where millions of residents have been under strict lockdown for over a month.

Beijing halts public transport amid Covid outbreak in China

With Covid showing no signs of slowing down, Shanghai has decided to ease some of the Covid restrictions that hit the businesses hard. Many factories in one of China’s biggest manufacturing hubs are now opening up in closed-loop systems, where workers have to live on-site to maintain zero contact with outsiders.

Shanghai to ease Covid restrictions as shutdown bites businesses hard

China on Friday reported more than 3,400 positive and 20,700 asymptomatic coronavirus cases, majority of them in Shanghai city which is reeling under prolonged lockdown, and where hospitals have been ordered not to delay treatment of non-COVID patients after an elderly woman died waiting for emergency care, sparking a public outcry.

Covid cases break records in Shanghai amid growing public anger

In Shanghai, residents are screaming for help from their balconies. Chinese health officials are now admitting the situation in the city is grim. Palki Sharma tells you more.

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