https://edition.cnn.com/2023/01/05/china/china-covid-outbreak-who-data-intl-hnk
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.
“WHO is concerned about the risk to life in China and has reiterated the importance of vaccination, including booster doses, to protect against hospitalization, severe disease, and death,” he said.
Speaking in more detail, WHO executive director for health emergencies Mike Ryan said the numbers released by China “under-represent the true impact of the disease” in terms of hospital and ICU admissions, as well as deaths.
世界卫生组织(WHO)指责中国”低估”了新冠肺炎的发病严重程度,并批评中国”狭隘”地定义了新冠肺炎死亡者,因为全球保健当局高层人士敦促中国共享更多的爆炸性扩散数据。
世卫组织总干事加布雷耶苏斯星期三在日内瓦举行的媒体简报会上说:”我们继续要求中国提供更快、更定期、更可靠的住院和死亡数据，以及更全面的实时病毒测序。”
他说:”世卫组织担心中国的生命危险，并重申接种疫苗，包括增效剂量的重要性，以防止住院、重症疾病和死亡。”
世卫组织负责紧急卫生事务的执行主任Mike Ryan更详细地说，中国公布的数字”低估了该疾病在住院和重症监护室以及死亡方面的真正影响”。
