Health

US and WHO push China for data from early days of contagion


by Nina Larson

WHO experts voiced frustration Saturday at lacking access to raw data while in China probing the pandemic’s origins, saying more was needed to detect possible early Covid cases.

“We want more data. We have asked for more data,” Peter Ben Embarek, who headed WHO’s expert mission to Wuhan, told AFP in an interview.

Colorized scanning electron micrograph of an apoptotic cell (red) infected with Covid-19. File photo: NIAID-RML.

“There is a mix of frustration but also a mix of realistic expectations in terms of what is feasible under which time frame,” he said, adding he hoped the requested data would be made available going forward.

The four-week WHO mission to China to uncover the origins of the coronavirus wrapped up earlier this week with no conclusive findings.

Experts believe the disease — which has killed nearly 2.4 million people worldwide — originated in bats and could have been transmitted to humans via another mammal.





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