<span style="color: #222222;">European Union (EU) has called on China to provide transparent Covid-19 data. A top European health official welcomed the bloc's agreement on a coordinated response to the Covid-19 situation in China and called on Beijing to provide transparent data on its epidemiological situation. In a tweet, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Kyriakides welcomed the agreement of Member States on a coordinated response to the Covid-19 situation in China at Wednesday's EU Integrated Political Crisis Response meeting. The EU official also said that regional European and global cooperation was the only way to tackle the pandemic.<br />''<br />''The EU member states have agreed to put in place a recommendation concerning pre-flight Covid-19 testing and mask-wearing for passengers arriving from China. World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has also asked China to share reliable data on Covid hospitalizations and deaths in the country.       </span><br />