The World Health Organization (WHO) has called on the Chinese authorities to share more detailed information on the impact of the latest wave of the coronavirus in the Asian giant.
The international agency acknowledges Beijing’s willingness to cooperate, but requests «more detailed data by province and over time,» it said in a statement.
It also asks China to contribute «more sequences» to open databases such as GISAID, the Global Initiative for Sharing Avian Influenza Data, the first institution that managed to sequence SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19, responsible for the pandemic, «so that more in-depth phylogenetic analyses can be carried out».
It also asks Beijing to «continue collaborating with the technical groups working on the evolution of the virus, on clinical care and on other issues».
In any case, WHO acknowledges «the publication of information on the overall situation» of the pandemic in China and stresses that the latest wave follows a pattern very similar to that already detected in other countries. It also stresses that the data reveal «a decrease in cases, hospitalizations and patients requiring critical care».
The WHO communiqué notes that the WHO Director General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has had a telephone conversation with the Director of the Chinese National Health Commission, Ma Xiaowei.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
