A 14,000-bed hospital for Covid patients is being build at the Shanghai International Circuit, which hosts the Chinese grand prixScientists are warning China against the use of herbal medicine and its homegrown vaccines to tackle the Omicron variant as the country faces its worst Covid-19 surge since the start of the pandemic. Tens of millions of boxes of Lianhua Qingwen, a traditional medicine, have been distributed to residents in Shanghai, which has recorded hundreds of thousands of infections in the past two months. SponsoredThe medicine is recommended to treat mild Covid infections in China’s official handbook, but medical professionals have said that its efficacy has not been rigorously tested. A woman takes Lianhua Qingwen, a traditional Chinese medicine, by the side of the road in Shanghai, which is struggling to curb the spread of coronavirus ALY SONG/REUTERS“Regrettably, Lianhua Qingwen cannot prevent Covid infection,” read an article on Dingxiang Yisheng, a medical information site in China. “It’s truly unnecessary to distribute Lianhua Qingwen to healthy residents.”Rao Yi, a leading neurologist, criticised

Source: The Times April 22, 2022 00:09 UTC