China Refuses to Provide Early COVID-19 Case Data to WHO

There have been reports that China refused to provide raw data, such as unprocessed original data (raw data), on early outbreak cases to the World Health Organization (WHO) investigation team seeking the origin of COVID-19.

According to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on the 12th (local time), Chinese authorities declined to provide detailed data on 174 confirmed cases identified in Wuhan in December 2019, the early stage of the COVID-19 outbreak.

WSJ explained that this data could help determine when and how COVID-19 first began spreading in China. Instead, China reportedly only provided its own analysis and extensive summaries of the cases conducted by government officials and scientists.

WSJ assessed that "the reluctance to provide data heightens international concerns about China's lack of transparency in the process of tracing the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic."

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