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China refused to provide WHO with raw data on COVID cases, says Australian investigator
An Australian infectious disease expert says Chinese authorities refused to give raw data on early COVID-19 cases to a World Health Organization-led team probing the origins of the pandemic.
Key points:
- WHO investigators were in China trying to determine the origins of COVID-19
- Professor Dominic Dwyer says Chinese officials would not hand over important data of 174 early cases
- The summary of the investigations could be released by WHO as early as next Friday
The team had requested raw patient data on the 174 cases of COVID-19 that China had identified from the early phase of the outbreak in Wuhan in December 2019, as well as other cases, but were only provided with a summary according to Professor Dominic Dwyer.
That raw data is known as…
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