China plays down mystery virus outbreak as hospitals ‘overwhelmed’ with patients in eerie echo of Covid five years ago [Video]

CHINESE hospitals are reportedly becoming rapidly overwhelmed with people suffering from a mysterious virus in an eerie echo of Covid.

Concerning footage appears to show several medical rooms packed with masked patients as officials remain tight-lipped over the latest outbreak.

The unverified yet worrying videos started to pop up across social media on New Year’s Eve with more being posted across the last few days.

Some claim to show hospitals in Hunan — a province in southern China as well as the surroundings areas.

Locals say the issues are particularity affecting children’s hospitals.

Local media say the influx of reported sicknesses is due to a dangerous virus most people have never even heard of called …