COVID data from Wuhan, China suggests pandemic was linked to animals, new scientific study reveals, as WHO chief Tedros criticises Beijing for not sharing the information earlier
The WHO chief Tedros has criticised China for not sharing earlier the genetic information gathered in Wuhan, adding that “this data could have and should have been shared three years ago.”
Other experts have not yet verified their analysis, which also has not appeared so far in a peer-reviewed journal. How the coronavirus first started sickening people remains uncertain. He criticised China for not sharing the genetic information earlier, adding that “this data could have and should have been shared three years ago.”
Tedros said the genetic sequences were uploaded to the world's biggest public virus database in late January by scientists at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention; the data have since been removed from the database.A French biologist spotted the information by chance while scouring the database and shared it with a group of scientists based outside China and looking into the origins of the coronavirus.
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