An emergency rescue worker lifts a patient from an ambulance outside Beijing Chaoyang Hospital on Wednesday. Local hospitals are receiving more patients as Covid-19 spreads across the city. Photo: Ding Ke, intern reporter/Caixin

Patients flood Beijing Chaoyang Hospital’s fever clinic. Photo: Ding Ke, intern reporter/Caixin

People gather in an emergency room to get treatment. Of late, the hospital has treated nearly 400 patients per day, four times more than usual. Photo: Ding Ke, intern reporter/Caixin

People buy camping beds for their ill relatives because of the the lack of hospital beds in Beijing’s China-Japan Friendship Hospital on Wednesday. Photo: Ding Ke, intern reporter/Caixin

An elderly patient insists on keeping an oxygen face mask at Beijing Chaoyang Hospital’s emergency medical center. The hospital ran out of oxygen to treat patients that day. Photo: Ding Ke, intern reporter/Caixin

A woman kneels before a medical staff member, asking for help treating her relatives outside Beijing Chaoyang Hospital’s intensive care unit. Photo: Ding Gang/Caixin

A nurse treats a patient at the hospital’s fever clinic. The hospital has added more than 50 beds in its emergency medical center and converted some specialized wards for critically ill patients. Photo: Ding Gang/Caixin

Patients receive treatment at Beijing Puren Hospital on Wednesday. Official statistics show that the capital’s fever clinics received visits from 65,000 patients that day. Photo: Ding Gang/Caixin