WHO investigator ‘unsure’ China provided all COVID data

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WHO investigator ‘unsure’ China provided all COVID data

“We certainly asked for data from the Chinese in particular around the first 174 cases that had been described in December 2019 ... and that wasn’t provided.

Dwyer praised the Chinese scientists and authorities for being hospitable hosts, but significant questions still remain over the level of access to data that Chinese authorities were actually willing to tolerate for the joint investigation.

Then on Thursday, the day after the WHO team left China, there were key developments.

WHO investigators told The Wall Street Journal that up to 90 patients were hospitalised with COVID-19 symptoms near Wuhan in the two months prior to the Huanan market outbreak, but the team was told wastewater samples prior to December 2019 had been destroyed and access to blood donations in that period were restricted due to local laws.

“We also know the Chinese were reporting the people who went to hospital were really sick,” said Dwyer. “But we now know there’s a lot of ordinary transmission going on between otherwise healthy people, so there must’ve been many, many more cases in December than were identified.”

World Health Organisation experts tasked with investigating the origins of the coronavirus toured a Wuhan propaganda exhibition celebrating China's recovery from the pandemic today.

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