The World Health Organization said China was providing insufficient data on the severity of the country's new Covid outbreak and criticized its 'narrow' definition of Covid death..

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According to him, the WHO is concerned about the risk to life in China and notes the importance of vaccination, including booster doses..

The bottom line is that the data released by China " And although many countries used to have some disagreements in reporting Covid, but in China this indicates a trend. Specifically, the country only lists those Covid patients who died of respiratory failure.. In particular, less than 20 deaths from local Covid cases were reported in China in the two weeks leading up to January 4..

“There is much more data to be shared from China and moreover from around the world so that we can track this pandemic at the start of the fourth year.. We need more information about sequencing across the country (and that) these sequences be made available to public databases such as GISAID (a global initiative that provides access to the genomic data of different influenza viruses) so that more in-depth analysis can be done, ”said.

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Note that after the easing of strict quarantine measures for Covid in China, a sharp jump in the incidence occurred in the country.. Local social media reports of overcrowded hospitals and crematoria, causing shortages of essential medicines.

The surge in cases in the country of 1.4 billion has also sparked global concern about the potential emergence of new options and the level of monitoring and data sharing in China.. A number of countries have introduced Covid testing requirements for travelers from China, citing a lack of data on circulating strains..