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Health

Biden says he was concerned at how China was handling COVID

Patients lie on beds and stretchers in a hallway in the emergency department of a hospital, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Shanghai, China January 4, 2023. REUTERS/Staff

U.S. President Joe Biden said on Wednesday he was concerned by how China was handling the COVID-19 pandemic.

China's COVID-19 data is not giving an accurate picture of the situation there and under represents the number of hospitalizations and deaths from the disease, a senior official at the World Health Organization said earlier in the day.

(Reporting by Steve Holland, writing by Kanishka Singh, editing by Chris Reese)

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