{"id":18911,"date":"2020-06-02T19:58:37","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T10:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/02\/china-withheld-data-coronavirus-world-health-organization-recordings-reveal"},"modified":"2020-06-02T19:58:37","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T10:58:37","slug":"china-withheld-data-on-coronavirus-from-who-recordings-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18911","title":{"rendered":"China withheld data on coronavirus from WHO, recordings reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Complaints by officials at odds with body\u2019s public praise of Beijing\u2019s response to outbreak<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The World Health Organization struggled to get needed information from China during critical early days of the coronavirus pandemic, according to recordings of internal meetings that contradict the organisation\u2019s public praise of Beijing\u2019s response to the outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>The recordings, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/3c061794970661042b18d5aeaaed9fae\">obtained by the Associated Press<\/a>, show officials complaining in meetings during the week of 6 January that Beijing was not sharing data needed to evaluate the risk of the virus to the rest of the world. It was not until 20 January that China confirmed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/20\/coronavirus-spreads-to-beijing-as-china-confirms-new-cases\">the coronavirus was contagious<\/a> and 30 January that the WHO declared a global emergency.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/02\/china-withheld-data-coronavirus-world-health-organization-recordings-reveal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Complaints by officials at odds with body\u2019s public praise of Beijing\u2019s response to outbreakCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe World Health Organization struggled to get needed information from China during critical early da&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,1069,346,914,512,79,1045,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-health","category-infectious-diseases","category-medical-research","category-society","category-world-health-organization","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18911"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18924,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18911\/revisions\/18924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}