The World Health Organisation on Friday (Dec 30) once again urged China's health officials to regularly share specific and real-time information on the Covid-19 situation in the country, as it continues to assess the latest surge in infections. The agency has asked Chinese officials to share more genetic sequencing data, as well as data on hospitalizations, deaths and vaccinations. Official...
The World Health Organization logo is pictured at the entrance of the WHO building, in Geneva, Switzerland, on Dec 20, 2021The World Health Organisation on Friday once again urged China's health officials to regularly share specific and real-time information on the Covid-19 situation in the country, as it continues to assess the latest surge in infections.
Official figures from China have become an unreliable guide as less testing is being done across the country following the recent easing of the strict "zero-Covid" policy.The agency has invited Chinese scientists to present detailed data on viral sequencing at its meeting of a technical advisory group scheduled for Jan 3.
The United States has also attributed the recent change in its policy to the lack of information on Covid-19 variants and concerns that the increased cases in China could result in the development of new variants of the virus.
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