China's strained medics are buckling as President Xi Jinping rolls back his failed Zero-Covid policy as officials pay people to have the vaccine.
Doctors and nurses across the country are being asked to work alongside sick and retired colleagues as the country struggles to stay afloat amid one of the world's most-devastating Covid outbreaks.
And the situation is likely to worsen as the virus spreads from the larger metropolitan areas to rural regions with inadequate healthcare systems.