UN envoy: China transparent in Covid-19 response

Beijing's United Nations Ambassador Zhang Jun says China has adopted rigorous prevention and control measures to effectively curb the spread of the epidemic. - Reuters

UNITED NATIONS (AFP): China has handled the coronavirus outbreak in a transparent and "highly responsible" way, the country's UN ambassador said on Wednesday (Feb 12), after criticism that local authorities did not react quickly enough.

"Facing the epidemic, we have always adopted an open, transparent and highly responsible attitude," Beijing's United Nations Ambassador Zhang Jun told the UN Commission for Social Development.