HONG KONG -- Desperate Chinese citizens are exchanging medicines online as the country faces a wave of COVID-19 cases after an abrupt policy U-turn that sparked a run on medicines and risks overwhelming hospitals.
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Customers buy medicine at a pharmacy as the local government distributes more fever medicines following a COVID-19 outbreak in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, on Dec. 19. © Reuters
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