State media in China played down the severity of its surge of COVID infections ahead of an expected briefing by its scientists to the World Health Organization, which is hoping for detailed data on the evolution of the virus
China's abrupt U-turn on COVID controls on Dec. 7, as well as the accuracy of its case and mortality data, have come under increasing scrutiny at home and abroad and prompted some countries to impose travel curbs.
China reported three new COVID deaths for Monday, taking its official death toll since the pandemic began to 5,253. Kang Yan, head of West China Tianfu Hospital of Sichuan University, said that in the past three weeks, a total of 46 patients had been admitted to intensive care units, or about 1% of symptomatic infections.
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