The Covid infection in China’s Shanghai Hospital, a facility where the COVID crisis is unfolding, the infection is majorly spreading among the older population and people are continuously losing their lives for the past three days with a dearth of tests and other resources.

In recent weeks, the Shanghai Donghai Elderly Care Hospital has been facing a lot of pressure with regards to the spread of coronavirus. Two attendants at the hospital said that many elderly patients were coming in with respiratory problems and had died on each of the past three days. This is an appalling development in China, where it is often difficult for people over 60 years old to get access to quality care.

With the rise of highly transmissible Omicron variant in China, the country is struggling to keep up with rising covid cases. The two talked on the condition of anonymity as they feared losing their jobs. With a lack of information about how to preventOVD and other infectious diseases from spreading, this situation is only going to get worse.

Lockdowns were imposed in major cities like Xi’an and Shenzhen, as well as the entire northern province of Jilin.

A woman who picked up the phone at the Donghai Elderly Care Hospital confirmed an outbreak of Covid there but declined to say how many cases there were or to provide other details. Bloggers shared photos and descriptions of the outbreak in the Donghai facility on Chinese social media, but it went unreported by official Chinese media.

A shanghai resident, Chen said she was “disappointed” with the hospital management. She mentioned that her mother’s feet and hands hurt but no one had given her any medicine since the earlier incident in which someone ate at 9:30pm. The NY Times reports that this problem is more widespread than initially thought due to a lack of food at hospitals across Shanghai.