When Li's 83-year-old father with diabetes started coughing and complaining of body aches last month, the Beijing resident became anxious about finding a treatment for COVID-19 in case his parent had caught the virus sweeping the city.
Paxlovid is covered by state insurance -- albeit temporarily until the end of March -- meaning patients in theory would only need to pay 198 yuan , a tenth of its usual price.
The official Guangzhou Daily reported that patients at the United Family Healthcare hospital in Guangdong were paying 6,000 yuan for health checks before being allowed to get Paxlovid priced at 2,300 yuan at the hospital.Health data firm Airfinity estimated in December that China would need 49 million courses of the COVID treatment over the next five months, with over 22 million needed in January alone.
Chen paid 20,000 yuan on Jan. 2 for two boxes for his elderly parents, who suffer from cancer, and he said that some people had paid double that price.
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