The story of the four-month-old toddler has been read by millions and is being investigated.
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Anger erupted after a father in Zhengzhou said paramedics had refused to see his four-month-old daughter, who was vomiting and had diarrhoea.The news follows numerous reports of people struggling to access healthcare under China's strict zero-Covid policy. Multiple Chinese news outlets are reporting on how Li Baoliang and his four-month-old daughter were isolated in a quarantine hotel in the city on 12 November, after Li's wife tested positive.He called an ambulance but paramedics required that the hotel carry out antigen tests before agreeing to see them, he told China News Weekly. As his daughter tested negative, he said medical staff then outright refused to see the child "on the grounds that she was not seriously ill".
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