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When Li tested positive for COVID-19 on Tuesday in Baoding in northern China, he braced for a five-day quarantine at a makeshift local hospital as part of the country’s strict pandemic controls.

Workers in protective suits set up barriers outside a building, following the coronavirus disease outbreak, in Shanghai, China June 9, 2022.Workers in protective suits set up barriers outside a building, following the coronavirus disease outbreak, in Shanghai, China June 9, 2022.

But the sudden policy shift caught him off guard – left on his own, he had no medication at home to treat his fever. But Beijing’s abrupt policy shift on Wednesday, cheered by some, also sparked apprehension in a country with a relatively low vaccination rate where people had been taught to fear the disease.

Some stocks have been replenished, Reuters found on a visit, with cold relief drugs like Ibuprofen available at many pharmacies. But the popular traditional Chinese medicine Lianhua Qingwen, used for symptoms like fever and cough, and antigen test kits remained harder to find. “There will certainly be increasing numbers of infections” in coming weeks, regardless of how many are captured in the test numbers, said Ben Cowling, an epidemiologist at Hong Kong University. Severe infections will also increase, he warned.

“We were joking that Baoding residents do not need heat as we can warm ourselves up with our own body temperature,” she said.The risk of severe illness for those over 65 is five times that of younger people, the risk for people over 75 seven times and nine times for those over 85, while their risk of death is 90, 220 and 570 times higher, respectively, said an official at China’s Center for Disease Control.

 

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