WHO Confronts China Over Withholding COVID-19 Origin Data

Chinese health officials defend their search for the origin of COVID-19 and criticize the World Health Organization (WHO) for suggesting that China should have shared genetic information earlier. The WHO Director, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, had said that newly disclosed genetic material from Wuhan should have been made available when the virus began. Chinese officials have previously pushed back on the theory that the virus originated in a Wuhan seafood market where illegally traded raccoon dogs may have infected humans. FBI Director Christopher Wray said in March that the COVID-19 pandemic was likely caused by a lab leak in Wuhan, China.