More images emerge of the situation overwhelming the health system in China as COVID continues to spread through a large population which possesses little immunity to the virus, while concern grows about how accurate the country's data is over the outbreak.
The World Health Organisation was holding talks in Geneva on Wednesday amid increasing international concern about the accuracy of China's data about the outbreak."the importance of vaccination, including booster doses to protect against hospitalisation, severe disease and death".
"We continue to ask China for more rapid, regular, reliable data on hospitalisations and deaths, as well as more comprehensive, real-time viral sequencing," he said.amid a surge in COVID cases, while in Europe and the US the Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5 is spreading rapidly.is the most transmissible variant so far, but said so far it did not appear to cause more serious illness.
It evolved from the XBB variant of Omicron, itself a fusion of two different BA.2 variants - BA.2.10.1 and BA.2.75. China's recent COVID outbreak is predominantly led by the Omicron subvariants BA.5.2 and BF.7, which together account for 97.5% of all local infections. European Union health officials are also discussing a coordinated response to the situation in China, such as further travel restrictions.
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