China still hasn’t handed over raw Covid-19 case data that the World Health Organization requested in early 2020, undermining a probe into how the virus emerged amid rising speculation that it leaked from a Chinese lab.
Beijing’s failure to provide the requested data has been one of the challenges hindering the WHO’s efforts to study Covid-19’s origin, the group’s director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, told reporters on Thursday in Geneva. “Now we have designed the second phase of the study, and we are asking, actually, China to be transparent, open and cooperate, especially on the information, raw data that we asked for at the early days of the pandemic,” he said.
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