Global health officials tried to determine the facts of China's raging COVID-19 outbreak and how to prevent a further spread as the Communist Party's mouthpiece newspaper on Wednesday rallied citizens for a 'final victory' over the virus.
Global health officials tried to determine the facts of China's raging COVID-19 outbreak and how to prevent a further spread as the Communist Party's mouthpiece newspaper on Wednesday rallied citizens for a "final victory" over the virus.
China has rejected foreign skepticism of its statistics as politically motivated attempts to smear its achievements in fighting the virus. European Union health officials are due to meet on Wednesday to discuss a co-ordinated response to China travel. The WHO would release information about the talks later, probably at a Wednesday briefing, its spokesperson said.
There were chaotic scenes at Shanghai's Zhongshan hospital where patients, many of them elderly, jostled for space on Tuesday in packed halls between makeshift beds where people used oxygen ventilators and got intravenous drips.
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