New Year, New Covid Sub-Variant
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What Does It Mean for China?
The sheer number of cases all happening in this short period of time is putting pressure on hospitals. The queue's a six to eight hours long for anybody to be seen and everybody in that queue is either a child or somebody in the elderly population. So really, it's a problem for the health of people in China and that will largely be concentrated in the oldest people and most vulnerable people. And one of the issues that I'm sure Kerry would agree with is that there's been an issue with vaccinating the oldest people who are the most at risk in China.
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