Leading scientists advising the World Health Organization say they want a "more realistic picture" about the COVID-19 situation from China's top experts at a key meeting today as worries grow about the rapid spread of the virus.
The WHO has invited Chinese scientists to a virtual closed meeting with its technical advisory group on viral evolution today, to present data on which variants are circulating in the Asian country.
The meeting is not open to the public or media.
Dutch virologist who sits on the WHO committee Professor Marion Koopmans told Reuters ahead of the meeting, that some of the data from China, such as hospitalisation numbers, is not credible.
So far, sequencing data from China provided to the online GISAID hub has shown the variants circulating there are offshoots of Omicron, in line with the dominant variants in the rest of the world.
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