French President Emmanuel Macron, in an interview published in the Financial Times yesterday, rejected the idea that China has dealt with the Corona virus better than Western democracies, considering the belief in this as "naivety", while China called for international unity in the face of the spread of the virus, It denied any cover up the extent of the epidemic.
And the Financial Times quoted Macron as saying that there is no comparison between countries where information flows freely and their citizens can criticize their governments, and countries where the truth is being suppressed.
Macron told the newspaper: "Given these differences, the choices that were made and what China has today, which I respect, we should not be so naذاve as to say it was much better in dealing with this. We do not know. It is clear that things happened and we do not know them. ”
On the other hand, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Legian said, "It is necessary for all countries to unite to fight the epidemic and win the war against Coved-19."
His comments came in response to Macron.
The municipality of Wuhan, where the virus appeared at the end of December, announced a high death toll from the virus after its review to include 1,290 additional deaths. This brought the death toll of "Covid-19" in the country with the largest population in the world to 4,632, according to these new figures.
Zhao denied that the Chinese authorities had hidden the scale of the outbreak. "There was no cover-up, and we will never allow that," he said.
He admitted that there were "delays, omissions and inaccuracies" in registering deaths at the start of the epidemic due to overcrowding in hospitals, but he affirmed that "China's response to the epidemic is not wrong."
Wuhan announces the high death toll from the virus after its review to include 1290 additional deaths.