China on Thursday urged the World Health Organization (WHO) to take an “impartial” position on the management of covid-19, after the body criticized Beijing for its definition “too narrow” to count deaths from the virus .
“We hope that the secretariat of the WHO maintain a scientific, objective and impartial position and strive to play a positive role in the global response to the challenge of the pandemic,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning told reporters.
SIGHT: China shares data on COVID-19 with the WHO, which has not found “any new variant or mutation”
The director of emergencies WHOMichael Ryan told reporters on Wednesday that official statistics did not reflect the real impact of the virus on Chinafaced with an increase in infections after the dismantling in December of the covid zero strategy.
China responded this Thursday that he “maintained close cooperation with the WHO” and that “it had always shared relevant information and data with the international community, in an open and transparent attitude”.
“According to an incomplete balance, there have been around 60 technical exchanges between the two parties since the covid-19 was detected for the first time, on issues including covid-19 prevention and control, treatment, vaccine research and development, and tracing the origin of the virus,” Mao Ning said.
The official balance of China shows only 23 deaths of coronavirus since December, after the authorities drastically narrowed the criteria for computing a death from covid-19.
Around a dozen countries have imposed covid tests for passengers coming from China alleging in several cases the little transparency of the Asian country about the data of the outbreak.
Source: Elcomercio
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