China limits how it defines COVID deaths in official count

TAIPEI--China only counts deaths from pneumonia or respiratory failure in its official COVID-19 death toll, a Chinese health ...
News Medical

Epidemic dynamics of the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant in China during the transition from 'zero-COVID' to little-to-no intervention efforts

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers quantified the magnitude and rate of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Omicron variant outbreak in ...
UPI

COVID-19: WHO demands China share data, open files, to help uncover origins of virus

Dec. 31 (UPI) --The World Health Organization marked the fifth anniversary of the emergence of COVID-19 on Tuesday by reiterating its call for China to release the data it holds and allow outside ...
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WHO accuses China of withholding Covid-19 genetic data

The World Health Organization (WHO) says it is unable to concretely identify the origins of the virus that led to the Covid-19 pandemic, in part due to a lack of cooperation from China. In a report ...
Time

China Could Soon Have 65 Million COVID Cases a Week. How Worried Should the World Be?

Commuters wearing face masks make their way along a street in the central business district during the morning rush hour in Beijing. Reporter When a Chinese senior health adviser last week projected ...
Reuters

Economic impact from rising COVID-19 cases in China controllable: stats bureau

BEIJING (Reuters) - The overall impact from the current COVID-19 resurgence on China's economy is controllable, the statistics bureau chief Ning Jizhe said on Monday, even as rising cases in some ...