WHO calls on China to release more data on Covid-19 outbreak
The World Health Organization has called on China to share more information on its surge in Covid-19 cases, after Beijing over the weekend reported almost 60,000 deaths since abandoning strict pandemic restrictions last month.
The WHO said in a statement that its director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus had spoken with Ma Xiaowei, head of China’s National Health Commission, about the country’s Covid-19 situation and was analysing the new data shared by Chinese authorities.
It said Chinese officials had provided information “on a range of topics, including outpatient clinics, hospitalisations, patients requiring emergency treatment and critical care, and hospital deaths related to Covid-19 infection”.
However, the official estimate for Covid-related deaths provided on Saturday was not a comprehensive mortality figure for the disease, as it excludes deaths outside hospitals at locations including senior care homes.
This story originally appeared on: Financial Times - Author:Hudson Lockett
