China Should Provide Raw Data on Pandemic’s Origins: WHO’s Tedros

China Should Provide Raw Data on Pandemic’s Origins: WHO’s Tedros
World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on the sidelines of the opening of the 74th World Health Assembly at the WHO headquarters, in Geneva, Switzerland May 24, 2021. Laurent Gillieron/Pool via REUTERS
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GENEVA—The head of the World Health Organisation said on Thursday that investigations into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic in China were being hampered by the lack of raw data on the first days of spread there and urged it to be more transparent.

A WHO-led team spent four weeks in and around the central city of Wuhan with Chinese researchers and said in a joint report in March that the virus had probably been transmitted from bats to humans through another animal.