The United States hopes that China can address the current outbreak of COVID-19, as the death toll from the virus is a global concern due to the size of the Chinese economy, State Department spokesman Ned Price said Monday.
“The number of victims of the virus is cause for concern for the rest of the world given the size of China’s GDP, given the size of China’s economy,” Price said.
he said at a daily briefing at the State Department.
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“Not only is it good for China to be in a stronger position against COVID, but it’s also good for the rest of the world,” Price said.
He added that whenever the virus spreads, it has the potential to mutate and pose a threat everywhere. “We’ve seen that over the course of many different permutations of this virus and certainly another reason why we’re so focused on helping countries around the world address COVID,” he said.
China on Monday reported its first COVID-19-related deaths in weeks, amid growing doubts whether the official tally was capturing the full number of victims of a disease that is sweeping cities after the government relaxed strict controls. antivirus.
The two deaths on Monday were the first reported by the NHC since Dec. 3, days before Beijing announced it would lift restrictions that had kept the virus in check for three years but sparked widespread protests. last month.
The low number of deaths since the restrictions were lifted on December 7 is inconsistent with the experience of other countries after similar measures. Officially, China has suffered just 5,237 COVID-related deaths during the pandemic, including the latest two deaths, a small fraction of its population of 1.4 billion.
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