Covid in China: WHO calls on Beijing to strengthen its response

The World Health Organization (WHO) has called connected Chinese officials to stock much real-time accusation connected Covid successful the country.

It comes arsenic Covid infections surge crossed China pursuing its determination to unbend its zero-Covid policy.

During a gathering connected Friday, WHO officials called for much information connected hospitalisations, intensive attraction portion (ICU) admissions and deaths.

It besides called for much information connected vaccinations.

Several countries person announced they volition beryllium screening travellers from China aft cases surged this month.

The United States, Spain, France, South Korea, India, Italy, Japan and Taiwan person each imposed Covid tests for travellers from China.

And passengers arriving successful England from China volition person to supply a antagonistic Covid trial earlier they committee a flight, ministers confirmed connected Friday.

"WHO again asked for regular sharing of circumstantial and real-time information connected the epidemiological situation... and information connected vaccinations delivered and vaccination status, particularly successful susceptible radical and those implicit 60," the UN wellness bureau said successful a statement aft the talks.

The bureau "expressed willingness to supply enactment connected these areas, arsenic good arsenic connected hazard communications connected vaccination to antagonistic hesitancy".

It besides "stressed the value of monitoring and the timely work of information to assistance China and the planetary assemblage to formulate close hazard assessments and to pass effectual responses".

WHO's method advisory radical connected the improvement of Covid-19 is acceptable to clasp a gathering connected Tuesday. The bureau said it has invited Chinese scientists to contiguous elaborate information connected viral sequencing.

WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said connected Thursday that it "needs much elaborate information" to marque a broad hazard appraisal of the Covid concern successful China.