UK removes China's 'unreliable' coronavirus data from its daily briefings

Amid increasing speculations over China’s coronavirus death toll, Britain has removed communist superpower from list of countries to compare spre of COVID-19 disease. British media reported that till April 23 China was included in charts showcased at daily coronavirus briefings at Downing Street. In a bid to compare UK’s response with or countries during times of pandemic, British lawmakers h statistics of all affected countries and territories. However, after several reports suggesting that China’s death toll is inaccurate and last week mainland updated number of died of coronavirus, British government removed mainland.

While as of April 26, UK has recorded 148,377 cases of coronavirus with at least 20,319 fatalities, media reports cited a study by Hong Kong University that stated more than 232,000 people might have contracted COVID-19 disease in China, which nearly four times actual figure reported by government in mainland. As of April 26, China has reported 82,827 with 4,632 casualties since virus originated in country back in December 2019. According to reports, UK officials believe that if China’s ‘unreliable’ figures are incorporated in ir comparison, it might result in derailing UK’s response to health crisis.  

founder of group and chairman of Commons foreign affairs select committee, Tom Tugendhat has said, “This data is used to judge effectiveness of our own response, wher good or b. It’s important we are comparing like with like, orwise our responses could be distorted leing to more deaths in UK.”

“Clearly 10 believes same as rest of world, that China’s data is unreliable and possibly false,” he was quoted saying.

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Coronavirus 'is t going to disappear'

Meanwhile, UK’s chief medical officer h t only declared that COVID-19 disease “is t going to disappear” in near future but also cautioned that people will have to follow social distancing measures "for rest of year". Professor Chris Whitty has said that it would be “wholly unrealistic” to expect life would return to rmalcy after UK successfully contains outbreak. While leers across globe are struggling to strike a balance between flattening curve of coronavirus spre and declining ecomy, Whitty reportedly believes that only “ideal way” to continue life, in long run, is to develop a “highly effective vaccine” or drugs that can treat highly contagious disease. 

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(With ANI inputs)