World Health Organisation official says Beijing is underreporting data on several fronts
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China scrapped its stringent Covid-19 controls in December after protests against them, abandoning a policy that had shielded its 1.4-billion population from the virus for three years. Ryan said on Wednesday the numbers China was publishing underrepresents hospital admissions, intensive care unit patients and deaths. Hours later, US President Joe Biden also raised concern about China’s handling of a Covid-19 outbreak that is filling hospitals and overwhelming some funeral homes.“They’re very sensitive ... when we suggest they haven’t been that forthcoming,” Biden told reporters while on a visit to Kentucky.
But at a hospital in Shanghai’s suburban Qingpu district, patients on beds lined the corridors of the emergency treatment area and main lobby on Thursday, most of them elderly and several breathing with oxygen tanks, a Reuters witness said.
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