* 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 Organization-led team probing the origins of the pandemic, one of the team's investigators said.
The lack of data potentially complicating efforts to understand how the outbreak began over a year ago, after it was first detected in China's Wuhan.
The team had requested raw patient data on the 174 cases of COVID-19 that China had identified from the early phase of the outbreak in Wuhan in December 2019, as well as other cases.
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Update #1: China refused to provide WHO team with raw data on early COVID cases, team member says (Reuters)
Update #2: China refused to give WHO raw data that could have helped determine when and how COVID-19 started (Business Insider)
WNU Editor: You do not need to be a genius to know that Beijing is hiding something, and we all have a pretty good idea what it is.
In the meantime Chinese state media is claiming the following .... China seizes on lack of WHO breakthrough in Wuhan to claim coronavirus vindication (CNN).
