{"id":51641,"date":"2023-01-05T08:47:53","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T23:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/05\/china-data-under-represents-true-impact-of-covid-outbreak-who"},"modified":"2023-01-05T08:47:53","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T23:47:53","slug":"china-data-under-represents-true-impact-of-covid-outbreak-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=51641","title":{"rendered":"China data \u2018under-represents\u2019 true impact of Covid outbreak \u2013 WHO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis of Chinese data finds no new variants of concern emerging, but world health body says it still does not have \u2018complete data\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organisation has criticised China\u2019s \u201cvery narrow\u201d definition of Covid-19 deaths, warning that official statistics are not showing the true impact of the outbreak.<\/p>\n<p>There is growing concern over the steep rise in Covid infections since Beijing last month abruptly lifted years of hardline restrictions, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/dec\/28\/china-hospitals-extremely-busy-amid-surging-wave-of-covid-infections\">with hospitals and crematoriums quickly overwhelmed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jan\/05\/china-data-under-represents-true-impact-of-covid-outbreak-who\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis of Chinese data finds no new variants of concern emerging, but world health body says it still does not have \u2018complete data\u2019The World Health Organisation has criticised China\u2019s \u201cvery narrow\u201d definition of Covid-19 deaths, warning that official&#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":[41,50,1066,1045,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-world-health-organization","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51641","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=51641"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51660,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51641\/revisions\/51660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}