China is defending handling of its raging COVID-19 outbreak after global leaders voiced concern and the WHO said Beijing was under-reporting virus deaths.
Mr Ryan said China's numbers under-represented hospital admissions, intensive care unit patients and deaths, and said Beijing's definition of COVID-related deaths was too narrow.
"They're very sensitive … when we suggest they haven't been that forthcoming," Mr Biden told reporters. China, which criticised such border controls, said its border with its special administrative region of Hong Kong would reopen on Sunday for the first time in three years. But at a hospital in Shanghai's suburban Qingpu district, patients on beds lined the corridors of the emergency treatment area and main lobby on Thursday, most of them elderly and several breathing with oxygen tanks, a Reuters witness said.
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