China has changed how it reports cases and deaths related to COVID-19, with officials no longer counting asymptomatic results as positive and only certain deaths as covid-related.
However, the Times also reported that some estimates – including one that made the rounds on Chinese social media – cited estimates from national health officials that the virus had spread to 250 million people during the first 20 days of December.
Countries have complained about China’s lack of cooperation and unwillingness to release all COVID-related data, particularly after the government also announced it would change its qualifications for counting deaths that related to the virus. People receive medical attention in a Fever Clinic area in a hospital in the Changning district in Shanghai, on Dec. 23, 2022. China is battling a wave of coronavirus infections that has hit the elderly hard but resulted in only a handful of reported deaths after the government redefined the criteria by which COVID-19 fatalities are counted.
Mao told reporters that China wants to"step up communication with the rest of the international community and work together to prevail over COVID." "Based on the latest changes in the COVID situation and the circumstances facing our response, the competent authorities in China have shared information in a timely, open and transparent manner in accordance with the law," Mao said."We shared the genome data of the virus from the latest COVID cases in China via the Global Initiative on Sharing Avian Influenza Data.
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