PACKING MEDICINE. Workers pack medicine to treat symptoms of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), at a factory of a medicine manufacturer, in Beijing, China on December 11, 2022. China is ill-prepared, analysts say, for a wave in COVID-19 infections that could heap pressure on its fragile health system and drive businesses to a halt BEIJING, China – People queued on Monday, December 12, outside fever clinics at China’s hospitals to check if they had COVID-19, a new sign of the rapid spread of symptoms after authorities began dismantling stringent measures against the disease. Three years into the pandemic, China is moving...