China Criticizes WHO for Handling of COVID-19 Data and Origins
China has criticized the World Health Organization (WHO) for accusing it of withholding data on the origin of COVID-19. The Director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control denied the allegations and said that China had provided all available information during a joint study on the pandemic's origins in 2021. The WHO has called on China to share the withheld data, but China has accused the organization of politicizing the issue and damaging its credibility. The source of COVID-19 has yet to be found, and a Chinese animal disease expert said that evidence linking the virus to a Wuhan animal market was insufficient.