Admitted, he was given Paxlovid, an anti-coronavirus drug developed by Pfizer. Just go home.'Īfter suffering four days with insomnia, loss of appetite and recurring fever, Mr.
The Hunan province resident, who asked to use a pseudonym to avoid attracting official attention, thought he had caught a cold because of the air conditioning he encountered on his trip.īut he took a test while still in Beijing and with a positive result, ended up at a hospital where he said a doctor told him, 'People all over the country are like this. Zhang, who was infected for the first time in December, told VOA Mandarin he was infected a second time on a business trip to Shanghai and Beijing in May. Lin said he knew others who were likely reinfected and didn't even bother to take a COVID test because their symptoms were so mild. He realized he was infected - again - in May.
