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Shanghai hospital crowded as Covid-19 cases surge
Hospitals in the Chinese capital of Shanghai became overwhelmed as Covid-19 cases surged in the city.
This footage shows the scene on Tuesday, 3 January, as patients, many of them elderly, crowded in an emergency ward.
Outside the hospital, people can be seen being brought into the building on stretchers after being delivered in ambulances.
A top doctor has expressed concern that up to 70 per cent of Shanghai's population may have been infected during the recent surge.
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