Health Minister Patty Hajdu needs to be more “careful and thoughtful” when it comes to answering questions related to China’s concealment of the true extent of the COVID-19 outbreak, says a Northeast Asia intelligence and security expert.
“Beijing has been working in overdrive in recent weeks to alter the narrative on the rapidly evolving crisis linked to the spread of COVID-19 around the world,” said Jonathan Miller, a senior fellow with Macdonald-Laurier Institute.