China’s data on COVID-19 does not provide the real picture of the situation and is lower figures in terms of hospitalizations and deaths from the disease.
This is what a senior official of the World Health Organization said on January 4.
Representatives of this United Nations agency are expected to meet again on January 5 with Chinese scientists as part of a broader update among member states on the situation of the COVID-19 pandemic. Concerns have grown as China has recently faced a rapid outbreak of the virus.
On Tuesday, top Chinese scientists presented data to a WHO technical advisory group, saying no new variant of the coronavirus had been found in China, a country of 1.4 billion people.