hospital who declined to be identifiedthere were long queues inside and outside the hospitals emergency department and at an adjacent fever clinic on tuesday evening most of those arriving in ambulances were given oxygen to help with their breathingalmost all of the patients have covid one emergency department pharmacy staff member saidthe hospital has no stocks of covidspecific medicine and can only provide drugs for symptoms such as coughing she saidcar parks around the dongjiao funeral home one of the biggest in chengdu were full funeral processions were constant as smoke billowed from the crematoriumwe have to do this about 200 times a day now said one funerals worker we are so busy we dont even have time to eat this has been the case since the opening up before it was around 3050 a daymany have died from covid said another workerat another chengdu crematorium privatelyowned nanling staff were equally busythere have been so many deaths from covid lately one worker said cremation slots are all fully booked you cant get one until the new year maybe jan 3 at the earliestchina has said it only counts deaths of covid patients caused by pneumonia and respiratory failure as covidrelatedzhang yuhua an official at the beijing chaoyang hospital said most recent patients were elderly and critically ill with underlying diseases she said the number of patients receiving emergency care had increased to 450550 per day from about 100 before according to state mediathe chinajapan friendship hospitals fever clinic in beijing was also packed with grayhaired patients state media reportednurses and doctors have been asked to work while sick and retired medical workers in rural communities were being rehired to help some cities have been struggling to secure supplies of antifever drugstravel rulesin a major step towards freer travel china will stop requiring inbound travellers to go into quarantine from jan 8 authorities said this week prompting many chinese cut off from the world for so long to check travel platformsbut while online searches for flights spiked on tuesday from extremely low levels residents and travel agencies suggested a return to anything like normal would take some months yet as caution prevails for nowmoreover some governments were considering extra travel requirements for chinese visitorsus officials cited the lack of transparent data as reasons for doing soindia and japan would require a negative covid test for travellers from mainland china with those testing positive in japan having to undergo a week in quarantine tokyo also plans to limit airlines increasing flights to chinathe philippines was also considering imposing testseconomic planchinas 17 trillion economy is expected to suffer a slowdown in factory output and domestic consumption as workers and shoppers fall illnews of reopening borders sent global luxury stocks higher but the reaction was more muted in other corners of the marketus carmaker tesla plans to run a reduced production schedule at its shanghai plant in january according to an internal schedule reviewed by reuters it did not specify a reasononce the initial