{"id":51587,"date":"2022-12-31T13:40:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/31\/who-urges-covid-data-transparency-as-china-prepares-to-open-borders"},"modified":"2022-12-31T13:40:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-31T04:40:00","slug":"who-urges-covid-data-transparency-as-china-prepares-to-open-borders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51587","title":{"rendered":"WHO urges Covid data \u2018transparency\u2019 as China prepares to open borders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says WHO officials stressed to Beijing the importance of sharing data ahead of easing of travel restrictions on 8 January<\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organisation again urged China\u2019s health officials to regularly share specific, real-time information on the country\u2019s Covid surge, as the UK joined other countries in bringing in travel restrictions, citing a lack of data as the reason.<\/p>\n<p>WHO Covid experts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news\/item\/30-12-2022-who-meets-with-chinese-officials-on-current-covid-19-situation\">met Chinese officials on Friday<\/a> and \u201cagain stressed the importance of transparency and regular sharing of data to formulate accurate risk assessments and to inform effective response\u201d, said the WHO chief, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DrTedros\/status\/1608948293039710208\">Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/31\/who-urges-covid-data-transparency-as-china-prepares-to-open-borders\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says WHO officials stressed to Beijing the importance of sharing data ahead of easing of travel restrictions on 8 JanuaryThe World Health Organisation again urged China\u2019s health officials to regularly share specific, real-tim&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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":[41,50,1066,914,299,527,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-science","category-travel","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\/51587","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51588,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51587\/revisions\/51588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}