Cases were exploding in China well before the government's decision to abandon its strict 'zero-COVID' policy, the director said, quashing suggestions that the sudden reversal caused a spike.
Mike Ryan, Executive Director of the World Health Organisation attends a news conference on the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland May 3, 2019.
Speaking at a briefing with media, he said the virus was spreading "intensively" in the nation long before the"There's a narrative at the moment that China lifted the restrictions and all of a sudden the disease is out of control," he said. Beijing started pivoting away from its signature "zero-COVID" policy this month after protests against the economically damaging curbs championed by President Xi Jinping.
In its most recent COVID report for the week to Nov. 27, the WHO said China had reported increasing hospitalisations for four consecutive weeks.
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