Cities across China scrambled to install hospital beds and build fever screening clinics as authorities reported five more COVID deaths and international concern grew about Beijing's surprise decision to let the virus run free
U.S. raises concerns over possibility of COVID mutationsSecurity tight at crematoriums amid doubts over death toll
"Every new epidemic wave in another country brings the risk of new variants, and this risk is higher the bigger the outbreak, and the current wave in China is shaping up to be big," said Alex Cook, vice-dean for research at the National University of Singapore's Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health.
Xu Wenbo, an official with the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, told reporters new mutations would occur but played down concerns.
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