China's devastating infection wave leaves pharmacies bare

Drug production and sales likely to return to normal in March, pharma exec says

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Shelves in pharmacies across China quickly emptied after people scrambled to stock up on medicines.

CUI XIAOTIAN, JIANG MOTING, FAN QIAOJIA, CHEN XI, HUA ANG, ZHAO JINZHAO and HAN WEI, Caixin

China's abrupt end last month to the zero-COVID policy that the government had doggedly stuck to for three years and lauded as the reason it had thus far avoided the mass infections and death tolls seen overseas caught most by surprise.

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