Beijing opened a temporary fever clinic Wednesday in a stadium in Xicheng district to reduce the pressure on hospitals as a flood of Covid-19 infections has occurred since China’s sweeping changes to its policy on the virus. Photo: VCG

A medical staffer works at the clinic’s cashier counter. Photo: VCG

A medical staffer organizes medications at the fever clinic. The clinic is open 12 hours a day and serves 16- to 65-year-old patients without underlying medical conditions. Photo: VCG

Residents purchase medication Wednesday at a pharmacy in Nanchang, East China’s Jiangxi province. Medicine for treating Covid-19 symptoms has nearly sold out in the city. Photo: The Paper

Senior citizens line up to get vaccinated against Covid-19 on Sunday in Fuzhou, East China’s Fujian province. Photo: VCG

A senior citizen receives a Covid-19 vaccine dose Sunday in Beijing’s Fengtai district. Photo: Hou Yu/China News Service, VCG

A resident inhales a Covid-19 vaccine dose Wednesday in Deqing county in East China’s Zhejiang province. Photo: VCG

A man stands next to an advertisement for the inhalable Covid-19 vaccine Tuesday in Shijiazhuang, North China’s Hebei province. The city made inhalable vaccine boosters available to residents that day. Photo: VCG