China’s rapid COVID spike could crash public health system
Patients recover at the Baoding No. 2 Central Hospital in Zhuozhou city in northern China’s Hebei province on Dec. 21, 2022.
Waves of new COVID-19 infections are threatening to overwhelm China’s health care system after the government lifted its stringent quarantine restrictions. And, male faculty members in Afghanistan are standing in solidarity with women after the Taliban-led government decreed that they will be banned from attending universities. Also, Caribbean nations react to the Dutch prime minister’s apology for his country’s history with slavery.
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