LONDON, Nov 23 (Reuters) - Leading scientists urged caution over fears of another pandemic on Thursday after the World Health Organization requested more information from China on a rise of respiratory illnesses and pneumonia clusters among children.
It called for more information about "undiagnosed pneumonia - China (Beijing, Liaoning)".
The standard wording of the alert echoed the first-ever notice about what would become COVID-19, sent on Dec. 30 2019: "Undiagnosed pneumonia - China (Hubei)."
Both the WHO and China have faced questions over transparency during the early days of COVID.
In China itself, there has been a lot of recent coverage of a rise in respiratory illnesses, including among children.
Persons:
Marion Koopmans, COVID lockdowns, Brian McCloskey, Virologist Tom Peacock, Jennifer Rigby, Jo Mason, Christina Fincher
Organizations:
World Health Organization, WHO, COVID, International Society for Infectious, FTV News, Reuters, Imperial College London, Thomson
Locations:
China, Dutch, Beijing, Liaoning, Hubei, Taiwan