Weng Shuiye laid back in her chair, sighing with relief as oxygen flowed from a tank into her nostrils.
Breathing problems, body aches and lethargy had prompted her to visit a hospital in her home village in Tonglu county in eastern China's Zhejiang province' for treatment.
Official data - China reported 14,171 new symptomatic cases and three deaths for Jan. 8 - dramatically under-represents the true extent of the outbreak, international experts have said. "Quite a number of my relatives and neighbours say that they have caught a cold, or they feel terrible, or they don’t have any energy. So they just stay at home."
However, hospitals visited by Reuters in Shanghai and Chengdu, as well as others around the country depicted in images and videos posted on social media, had overwhelmed emergency departments and long queues at fever clinics.
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