Answer:
Obviously the Indian assumption that covid has wrecked much havoc in China is wrong
Especially since we know that a bad covid emergency like Delta in India should have collapsed China's space industry to just 2 launches like India's:
Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) K Sivan has acknowledged there is a feeling that very little happened in ISRO in 2021 with the last few months being a lull due to the impact of the coronavirus.
How can Chinese vaccines "fail spectacularly" when there is not enough deaths and disruption to affect China's space program like it did in India?
Indians hoping for havoc and vaccine failure in China doesn't mean it is happening in China
Yep CCP is supreme and its lecky
@SexyChineseLady is real servant to his masters.
Everybody else is a minion and dont count and are jealous with Middle Kingdom.
One courier service had to limit the number of customers sending medical supplies to China, which is dealing with a surging COVID-19 outbreak.
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One courier service had to limit the number of customers sending medical supplies to China, which is dealing with a surging Covid-19 outbreak.
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Worried China nationals in
Singapore are queuing to send flu medicines back home to relatives caught in a surging
Covid-19 outbreak and reports of drug shortages.
When CNA visited a shopping area near Chinatown on Wednesday morning, a queue of more than 20 people had formed in front of Shun Xing Express, a company specialising in courier services to
China.
An employee said that since Tuesday, Shun Xing had to limit the number of customers sending medical supplies to China to 50 a day. Customers sending non-medical supplies are not subject to this cap.
This was after “too many” people came to send medication on Monday, forming a queue that extended all the way to the bus stop, said the employee, who asked not to be named as he was not authorised to speak to media.
China eased nationwide Covid-19 restrictions on December 7, scrapping the need for frequent mass testing, and introducing home quarantine for some patients as well as shorter and more precise lockdowns.
China’s top health body has said the true scale of Covid-19 infections in the country is now “impossible” to track, with officials warning cases were rising rapidly in Beijing after the government abandoned its zero-Covid policy.
Family requested medicine
At 10:30am, there was already a sign outside Shun Xing saying that all 50 places for the day had been claimed, and asking customers not to join the queue without a number.
Another sign dated December 19 listed 17 provinces and municipalities experiencing delivery delays due to the pandemic, including Beijing, Shandong and Jiangsu.
Shun Xing has also put a limit of eight boxes of the painkiller Panadol or the traditional Chinese medicine Lianhua Qingwen to be couriered to one address.
It costs S$10 (US$7.40) to courier a package containing eight boxes of those medicines. Other medicines, such as cough syrup, are charged by weight.
People in the queue were originally from provinces across China, and told CNA they were sending the medicines after family members asked them to do so.
One man, who only wanted to be known as Mr Wu, was sending Panadol and Lianhua Qingwen to four addresses of relatives in Guangdong. He started queuing at 8:20am, and was still in the queue at 11am.
A man who identified himself as Mr Zhen was sending two boxes of Panadol and five boxes of Lianhua Qingwen to his parents-in-law in Zhejiang. He said some older relatives were sick and did not have any medicine.
Another man said he bought eight boxes of Panadol as well as ibuprofen and children’s cough and fever medicine for his relatives in Chongqing.
Extraordinary times
Inside the shopping area, another queue was forming at a still-closed unit occupied by Anjie International Express.
A woman from Jiangsu, who only wanted to be known as Ms Lu, joined the line after failing to secure a number at Shun Xing despite arriving at 8am.
Ms Lu intended to send vitamins and children’s fever medicine to her relatives, adding that she was focusing on remedies for the kids.
She said it had become almost impossible to find children’s fever medicine in China, and that she had heard rumours of exorbitant prices as high as 1,000 yuan (US$143) for two boxes.
Another woman from Shanghai, who did not want to be named, was shopping at one pharmacy in the area, after making enquiries at Shun Xing and other couriers in the building.
She was considering sending medicine to her relatives in these “extraordinary times”, but was worried her packages would be confiscated at Chinese customs.
The woman teared up while recounting that some of her elderly family members in China, who were unvaccinated and in their 80s and 90s, had recently recovered from Covid-19.
Two Watsons outlets in the area were out of Panadol – except for the menstrual as well as muscle and joint varieties – when CNA checked on Wednesday afternoon.
Staff at the two shops said they had observed many Chinese people buying Panadol in recent days. Both outlets have not put in place any purchasing limits.
An employee at one pharmacy said that when new stock of Panadol arrived on Tuesday, it sold out within half an hour.
Nurofen, a brand name for ibuprofen, also sold out, she said.
But at the Essentials Pharmacy in a nearby shopping centre, several boxes of Panadol were still on the shelves, though a staff member said stock was also running low.
This article was first published on CNA.
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