China's provinces send medical workers to Beijing to battle COVID

Cross-regional support seen unacceptable to already-stretched local frontline professionals

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Patients flood Beijing Chaoyang Hospital’s fever clinic. © Caixin

JIANG MOTING and WANG XINTONG, Caixin

As Beijing's already strained health care system braces for a peak in severe Covid infections, several provinces have sent medical teams to the capital, despite criticism from local health officials and workers that they, too, are stretched to their limits.

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