US urges China to be transparent about growing Covid outbreak
US secretary of state Antony Blinken has called on China to maintain “transparency” as international alarm grows about a spiralling Covid-19 outbreak in the world’s most populous country.
On a call with Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi, Blinken “discussed the current Covid-19 situation, and . . . underscored the importance of transparency for the international community”, according to a US State Department summary of the call.
Various international groups and countries have recently raised the alarm over the outbreak in China, which this month abruptly scrapped many of its measures to contain the disease.
This story originally appeared on: Financial Times - Author:William Langley
