Beijing: Patients, mostly older people, laid on stretchers in hallways or took oxygen while sitting in wheelchairs as a Covid outbreak stretched public health facilities’ resources in China. The Chuiyangliu hospital in Beijing’s east was packed with newly arrived patients. Beds ran out by midmorning, even as ambulances continued to bring more people in.

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