The World Health Organization (WHO) reiterated Wednesday the need for China to share more data on its explosive COVID-19 outbreak, while praising Washington's 'radical transparency' in its efforts to battle a new sub-variant.
The World Health Organization has repeatedly voiced concern that China's official statistics are not showing the true impact of its current surge in COVID-19 cases. FILE PHOTO
"WHO still believes that deaths are heavily underreported from China," its emergencies director Michael Ryan told reporters. "There's been radical transparency on behalf of the United States in terms of engaging with the WHO regarding the data and the impact of that data," he said. China abruptly dropped its "zero-COVID" approach last month after three years of enforcing some of the harshest anti-pandemic restrictions in the world. That unleashed a wave of infections that has packed hospitals and overwhelmed crematoriums.
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