​The World Health Organization (WHO) is concerned about the sudden increase in the number of Covid-19 cases in China and supports the Beijing government in its efforts to vaccinate people in high-risk groups, its director-general announced on Wednesday. UN agencies, Reuters and Agerpres report.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director General of WHOPhoto: Fabrice COFFRINI/ AFP/Profimedia Images

Infections have risen sharply in the country with the world’s second-largest economy, and forecasts suggest China could face a surge in Covid-19 cases and more than 1 million deaths linked to the disease next year. .

“WHO is very concerned about the development of the situation in China, where the number of reports of severe forms of the disease is increasing,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters.

According to Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO needs more detailed information on the number of severe cases, the number of hospitalizations and hospitalizations in the intensive care unit, in order to conduct a comprehensive analysis of the epidemiological situation in China.

The WHO director’s statement came on the same day that the German government confirmed it had sent the first batch of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines to China to be administered to German expatriates living in the country.