China refused to give raw data on early COVID-19 cases to a World Health Organization-led team probing the origins of the pandemic, one of the team’s investigators said, potentially complicating efforts to understand how the outbreak began.
A WHO team has been in China for a month-long Covid-19 fact-finding mission
But a lack of data potentially complicated efforts to learn how outbreak began
The team had requested raw patient data on the 174 cases of COVID-19
However, they were only provided with summaries said Dominic Dwyer, an Australian infectious diseases expert who is a member of the team
His comments come a day after WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the theory Covid-19 originated from a Wuhan lab remains open
China refused to give raw data on early Covid-19 cases to a World Health Organisation-led team probing the origins of the pandemic, one of the team’s investigators said, potentially complicating efforts to understand how the outbreak began.