As COVID-19 rips through China, other countries and the World Health Organization are calling on its government to share more comprehensive data on the outbreak. Some even say many of the numbers it's reporting are meaningless. An AP explainer on CTVNews.ca outlines what's going on with China's COVID-19 data.
As COVID-19 rips through China, other countries and the World Health Organization are calling on its government to share more comprehensive data on the outbreak. Some even say many of the numbers it's reporting are meaningless.
China is most certainly doing their own sampling studies but just not sharing them, said Ray Yip, who founded the U.S. Centers for Disease Control office in China. That hasn't stopped at least 10 countries -- including the U.S., Canada, Japan, South Korea, India, Australia, the U.K., France, Spain and Italy -- from announcing virus testing requirements for passengers from China. The European Union strongly encouraged all its member states to do so this week.
"It is like an early warning system for authorities to anticipate whether there's a surge of infections coming in," said Dr. Khoo Yoong Khean, a scientific officer at the Duke-NUS Centre for Outbreak Preparedness in Singapore.A police robot vehicle patrols past masked visitors at an outdoor shopping center in Beijing, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023.
"Data remains essential for WHO to carry out regular, rapid and robust risk assessments of the global situation," the head of the U.N. health agency said.
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