China has defended its handling of its raging Covid-19 outbreak after US President Joe Biden voiced concern and the World Health Organization (WHO) said Beijing was under-reporting virus deaths
The WHO's emergencies director, Mike Ryan, said yesterday that in some of the UN health agency's most critical remarks to date, that Chinese officials were under-representing data on several fronts.
"Facts have proved that China has always, in accordance with the principles of legality, timeliness, openness and transparency, maintained close communication and shared relevant information and data with the WHO in a timely manner," Ms Mao said. "They're very sensitive …when we suggest they haven't been that forthcoming," Mr Biden told reporters while on a visit to Kentucky.
But at a hospital in Shanghai's suburban Qingpu district, patients on beds lined the corridors of the emergency treatment area and main lobby today, most of them elderly and several breathing with oxygen tanks, a Reuters witness said.Staff declared one elderly patient dead and pinned a note to the body on the floor stating the cause of death"respiratory failure".
The methods for counting Covid deaths have varied across countries since the pandemic first erupted in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019.
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