Crowded Outpatient Department in Shanxi Hospital

On April 26, media in Shanxi Province reported that two major medical research hospitals, the First Affiliated Hospital of Shanxi Medical University and the Shanxi Provincial People’s Hospital will take online reservations to avoid crowded on-site registration. Recently, a video was seen online where the First Affiliated Hospital was packed with people waiting outside the Outpatient Department. Several hospital staff were seen directing the crowd. Netizens commented that there were many unconfirmed and/or unreported cases of the CCP virus infection in Shanxi. Seeing so many people gathering like this is worrisome. On April 7 and 13, similar videos were released from Harbin of Heilongjiang Province, showing thousands of people waiting outside a local hospital. On April 17, Chinese state media admitted that Harbin was hit by another round of outbreak of the CCP virus.