France and Britain on Friday joined a growing list of nations imposing Covid tests on travelers from China, and the World Health Organization pressed Beijing to be more forthcoming on real-time data amid an explosion of cases there.
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Despite its hospitals and morgues being overwhelmed — and international concern over the low official figures on infections and deaths there — China insisted Friday that it had been transparent in sharing its Covid-19 data. “WHO stressed the importance of monitoring and the timely publication of data to help China and the global community… to inform effective responses,” it said.
Britain, France, Spain, South Korea and Israel have joined Italy, Japan, India, Malaysia, Taiwan and the United States in requiring negative Covid tests for all travellers from mainland China, in a bid to avoid importing new virus variants.Switzerland however said it would keep its borders open for arrivals from China.In Beijing, Wang argued that health experts in several countries had decided there was no need to impose entry restrictions on travelers from China.
But Health Minister Karl Lauterbach did argue for a coordinated EU-wide system to monitor variants across European airports.A coordinated approach would make it easier to detect new variants of the coronavirus quickly and take appropriate measures, he added. “Given the health situation in that country, we know the importance of acting with coordination, but also the importance of acting quickly,” she added.Jiao Yahui, from China’s National Health Commission , insisted on Thursday Beijing had always published data “on Covid-19 deaths and severe cases in the spirit of openness and transparency”.But health risk analysis firm Airfinity said it currently estimates 9,000 daily deaths and 1.8 million infections per day in China, and it expects 1.
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