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Reuters
Reuters
Health
By Emma Farge and Bernard Orr

China hospital data absent from WHO's latest COVID reports, raising concern

FILE PHOTO: People line up at a makeshift fever clinic set up inside a stadium, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Beijing, China December 19, 2022. REUTERS/Alessandro Diviggiano

The World Health Organization has received no data from China on new COVID-19 hospitalisations since Beijing lifted its zero-COVID policy, prompting some health experts to question whether it might be hiding information on the extent of its outbreak.

However, the WHO has said gaps in data might be due to Chinese authorities simply struggling to tally cases.

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