US Foreign Minister Anthony Blinken on Thursday asked China to share information about the new wave of Covid-19 in the country and again offered help in the form of vaccines, AFP reported.
“It is very important that all countries, including China, focus on vaccinating people, making testing and treatment available, and more importantly, sharing information with the world about what is happening, because this has implications not only for China, but and for the whole world. “, he said at the press conference.
More than 5,000 people are likely to die of COVID-19 in China every day, according to estimates by medical data company Airfinity, which stands in stark contrast to Beijing’s official figures on the country’s ongoing epidemic.
The assessment came after a hospital in Shanghai late on Wednesday asked staff to prepare for a “tragic battle” with COVID-19, as half of the city’s 25 million residents are expected to be infected by the end of next week, Reuters reported.
The British company Airfinity explained that it used modeling based on data from Chinese regions to calculate the announced figures. It is also estimated that the current daily number of coronavirus infections in the country exceeds one million.
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Source: Hot News
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