Chinese health officials lashed out at the World Health Organisation after its leader said Beijing should have shared genetic information earlier. 9News
after its leader said Beijing should have shared genetic information earlier.
"As a responsible country and as scientists, we have always actively shared research results with scientists from around the world," Shen said at a news conference.Many scientists believe it jumped from animals to humans at a market in Wuhan, but the city also is home to laboratories including China's top facility for collecting viruses. That prompted suggestions COVID-19 might have leaked from one.
Officials have repeated anti-US conspiracy theories that the virus was created by Washington and smuggled into China. The government also says the virus might have entered China on mail or food shipments, though scientists abroad see no evidence to support that. The genetic material cited by the WHO's Tedros was uploaded recently to a global database but collected in 2020 at a Wuhan market where wildlife was sold.
The information was removed by Chinese officials from the database after foreign scientists asked the CDC about it, but it had been copied by a French expert and shared with researchers outside China.
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