The World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday it was sure China had far more data that could shed light on the origins of COVID-19, demanding Beijing to immediately share all relevant information.
File photo of an aerial view shows the P4 laboratory on the campus of the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province which conducts research on the world's most dangerous diseases, has been accused by top US officials of being the source of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
"That's why we have been asking China to be cooperative on this," he said, insisting that if Beijing does provide the missing data "we will know what happened or how it started". Late last month, new evidence emerged that raccoon dogs, known to be able to carry and transmit viruses similar to the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19, were at a market in Wuhan when the disease was first detected in humans.
"Without information, without data to make a proper assessment, it's very difficult for us to give a concrete answer. And in the present time, we don't have a concrete answer of how the pandemic began," she said.But she voiced certainty that China's "incredible scientists" had conducted far more studies and collected much more data that could be relevant in the search."We need scientists, public health professionals and governments to share this information.
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