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LONDON, Jan. 12, 2021 / PRNewswire / – How the WHO study was conducted China still hampered by bureaucratic delays, the world’s largest country is ranked 96th out of 100 countries in the Covid Data Transparency Index (CDTI) published by an independent research group TotalAnalysis.
Scoring just 19.5 percent overall – effective zero star rating – China score raises a number of new questions: why Hubei area locked down if infections run at less than 100 per day? how come China has not recorded a single Covid death since May 2020 when official figures show that 5,000 – the real number many times – have since caught the virus?
The Index runs countries on a range of Covid indicators, grouped into four main pillars – data transparency, coverage, usage and management. The research team at London-into TotalAnalysis has been monitoring and extracting official Covid data from more than 200 countries and their local areas every day since the outbreak began. The full index can be accessed at https://www.totalanalysis.com/Covid19/TAIndex
Only four countries (Belgium, Norway, USA and Chile) scored above 70 percent on the TA data transparency index, and at the other end of the seating scale North Korea and Turkmenistan in position 99 together (just two views below China) with a zero score – both countries having “total Covid-denial rejection” without a single disease reported.
Mike laflin, Director of Research at TotalAnalysis, said: “As the second largest GDP country in the world, China Data management is extremely poor and appears to be deliberately vague.
“There is no centralized data dashboard and even the most basic numbers, such as hospital and test, are missing – making data analytics and data comparisons almost impossible. China if a clearer and more efficient surveillance system were in place the world would have issued a better warning of the global pandemic and could have responded much more quickly, saving millions of lives and billions of dollars. “
Without any database and therefore very little capacity to analyze and compare numbers, TotalAnalysis score China 17 per cent for data transparency. Bad publicity was exacerbated by constant change of Covid definitions and a ban on regional reporting of incoming cases. February 2020 when central government took control of reporting through a text-based document to name everyday issues and deaths. Since then, a number of corrections have been made to largely unrecorded numbers and 1,290 ‘missing’ deaths have been added in April resulting in a sudden increase of 50 per cent.
One of the main shortcomings of Chinese data is the lack of test information, which is important to understand the credibility of the number of Covid cases. As a result of this, and lack of hospital data China gets just 26 percent for data coverage. By the way, China The National Health Commission has one of the worst websites in the world for displaying data (TotalAnalysis reviews of over 200 national websites per day) leading to China scoring just 6 percent in terms of data usability. Without data images, no data analysis and no data, it is almost impossible to understand Covid’s true distribution. China.
Richard Londesborough, Co-Founder TotalAnalysis, said: “With the advent of the pandemic, China lack of data credibility is a global issue, not a national one. One year has passed since the revolution began and we are still waiting for the WHO to investigate the origins of the pandemic. China, including a full analysis of data that currently looks very suspicious. ”
As efficacy data have been unequivocally released for the Sinovac vaccine, as several countries prepare for major diseases, China there will continue to be pressure to improve data management and transparency.
Notes to the Editor:
Full report on China And a breakdown of index scores for 100 countries is available at https://totalanalysis.com along with a global report on index results.
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Based in London, TotalAnalysis is an independent information resource for data on Coronavirus pandemic. With over 400,000 data points analyzed from more than 350 public sources, TotalAnalysis regularly updates and analyzes Covid-19 data daily on over 200 countries and 2,200 localities across Africa, the Americans, Asia pacific, Europe, and the Middle East. TotalAnalysis was launched in April 2020 and is completely independent of any government, institution or pressure group.
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