The World Health Organization has accused China of “under-representing” the severity of its Covid outbreak and criticized its “narrow” definition of what constitutes a Covid death
, as top global health officials urge Beijing to share more data about the explosive spread. “We continue to ask China for more rapid, regular, reliable data on hospitalizations and deaths, as well as more comprehensive, real-time viral sequencing,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a media briefing in Geneva Wednesday.
so that deeper analyses can be done,” she said. is a global initiative that provides access to the genomic data of different influenza viruses. Information about China’s outbreak would also be shared with WHO member states during a broader meeting on Thursday, WHO officials said. CNN’s Hira Humayun and Sugam Pokharel contributed reporting.
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