The World Health Organization's COVID-19 technical lead is calling for China to release all its data related to the pandemic's origins.
Scientists in China collected key coronavirus data in 2020 from a market in Wuhan — ground zero of the first reported outbreak of COVID-19 — but didn't share the raw data publicly until March 2023. And experts suspect that China has much more data from the early pandemic that"have yet to be shared" with the global research community.
These undisclosed data likely include details of China's wild- and farmed-animal trades, as well as the operations of labs in Wuhan that work with coronaviruses, according to the editorial. The data also may include details about the earliest potential cases of COVID-19 detected in China and the diagnostic testing that was conducted in humans and animals in the early days of the pandemic.
This analysis prompted a meeting of the WHO Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens , the China CDC researchers and the international team that analyzed the newly released raccoon dog data. China's failure to share the data back in 2020 is"simply inexcusable," Van Kerkhove wrote in her editorial.
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