The World Health Organization said China is not sharing reliable data about the country’s COVID-19 infections or viral sequencing, which could be used by the global medical agency to carry out risk assessments of the current virus situation.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Wednesday that officials met with their counterparts in China within the last week to discuss the surge in cases there.
“We continue to ask China for more rapid, regular, reliable data on hospitalizations and deaths, as well as more comprehensive, real-time viral sequencing,” Tedros said.
[A little late there, slick. — Ed]
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