Members of the World Health Organization (WHO) team investigating the origins of the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic are leaving The Jade Hotel in a bus after completing their quarantine in Wuhan, Hubei province in China on January 28, 2021.
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British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said on Sunday he was concerned about the level of access to a World Health Organization COVID-19 fact-finding mission to China, which reflected US criticism.
The White House on Saturday called on China to make data available from the earliest days of the new coronavirus outbreak, saying it was “deeply concerned” about the way the findings of the WHO’s COVID-19 report has been notified.
Asked about the US response, Raab told the BBC: ‘We are concerned that they are getting full co-operation and that they are getting the answers they need, and therefore we will insist on having full access. , get all the information needed to be able to answer the questions I think most people want to hear answered around the outbreak. ‘
In a separate BBC interview, a member of the WTO delegation to China said that although Chinese authorities did not give them all the raw data, they saw a lot of information and discussed the analysis of the first cases.
“It’s unusual for them to hand over the raw data, but we discussed a lot of information in detail in conversation with the Chinese counterparts,” said John Watson, an epidemiologist who traveled to China as part of the WTO team.
On Saturday, Dominic Dwyer, an Australian expert on infectious diseases, who is also a member of the team, said China had denied access to all the data requested.