The World Health Organization (WHO) has criticized China for its “narrow” definition of what constitutes a Covid death and accused Beijing of “under-representing” the severity of its outbreak of the disease as they call on Beijing to provide more information about the explosive spread at a media briefing in Geneva on Wednesday.
“WHO is concerned about the risk to life in China and has reiterated the importance of vaccination, including booster doses, to protect against hospitalization, severe disease, and death,” said WHO’s Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, quoted on CNN.
More specifically, Mike Ryan, WHO’s Executive Director for Health Emergencies, claimed that the figures currently provided by China “under-represent the full effect of the disease” in terms of admissions to hospitals and ICUs and fatalities.
He recognized that hospital data reporting has lagged in many nations, but he pointed to China’s “limited” definition of a Covid death as a contributing factor.
Not long ago, WHO and Chinese officials held a conference to discuss the recent spike in COVID-19 cases.
WHO urged China to improve its clinical management, impact assessment, virus sequencing, and risk communications for vaccination to combat reluctance.
WHO’s most recent statement released on January 4 said that the organization will continue to closely monitor the situation in the People’s Republic of China and globally and urges all countries to continue to be vigilant, to monitor and report sequences, as well as to conduct independent and comparative analyses of the different Omicron sublineages, including on the severity of disease they cause.
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