WHO says China data underrepresents COVID surge and deaths

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China's COVID-19 data is not giving an accurate picture of the situation there and underrepresents the number of hospitalisations and deaths from the disease, a senior official at the World Health Organization said on Wednesday.

The U.N. agency was preparing to meet Chinese scientists again on Thursday as part of a wider briefing among member states on the global COVID-19 situation as concerns grow about the rapid spread of the virus in the world's No. 2 economy.data to a WHO technical advisory group showing no new coronavirus variant had been found in the country of 1.4 billion people.

"We believe the current numbers being published from China underrepresent the true impact of the disease in terms of hospital admissions, in terms of ICU admissions, particularly in terms of death," said Mike Ryan, WHO's emergencies director. He said vaccination rates needed to increase and people should wear masks to protect themselves from infection."It really does depend on the measures that are in place," said the WHO's COVID-19 technical lead Maria van Kerkhove.

 

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No 💩

It’s the WHO’s responsibility as they spoiled China since the beginning three years ago.

They mad cuz China just followed how the rest of the world is doing things!

Who would have thought!

You don't say.

you don't say ... 😲🤔

I like how there is a snake on the who logo.

Florida too

iisaac300

It's OK the US is on 1.3 million deaths for a year now !

Oh no... Really? What a surprise.

We can't trust China on this matter yet. Once again their data is unreliable. The rest of the world, the West especially, must be EXTREMELY CAUTIOUS since nobody knows truly what's going on there. A COVID-19 SEQUEL is unfolding and we don't want to be caught by surprise again.

Obsessed with negative outcomes.

Red China Communists lie.

Irresponsible govt

PeterHotez

Good. We don't want 2 more years of covid stats.

😂🤣 three years too late drawing these conclusions.

More importantly post the countries with the most accurate.

They catched the covid19 disaster to the world then so much peoples died, I will never trust this country

A revelation...

I guess China got behind on their payments to WHO.

Everyone else says WHO lied about the pandemic from the start

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