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Australia joins 13 other countries in voicing concerns over lack of access for WHO COVID experts in China
Australia has joined 13 other countries in expressing concerns that the World Health Organization (WHO) report on the origins of coronavirus was delayed and lacked access to complete data.
Key points:
- World Health Organization experts visited Wuhan in January and February to investigate the origins of COVID-19
- Some of those experts and the WHO chief have complained about a lack of access to raw data
- Australia joined the US, UK, Japan and other nations in releasing a statement about the delays and lack of access
It followed WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus’s assertion that data was withheld from WHO investigators who travelled to China to research the origins of the pandemic.
In its final report, written jointly with Chinese…
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