Boris Johnson today urged China to provide all the evidence on the origins of Covid-19 amid fears over interference in a WHO investigation.
The PM insisted the world needs to get to the bottom of how the deadly pandemic emerged, echoing US concerns that scientists are able to conduct an independent probe.
The comments came after the fact-finding mission to Wuhan seemed to dismiss theories the virus leaked from a lab last week.
WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus later said that all hypotheses were still open.
US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said on Friday that Washington had deep concerns about the way in which the early findings of the Covid-19 investigation were communicated and questions about the process used to reach them .
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Wuhan Covid investigator says China refused to hand over raw data on first cases to WHO team probing how pandemic began
Updated: 13 Feb 2021, 17:48
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A WUHAN Covid investigator says China refused to hand over raw data about the country s first cases to the World Health Organisation team probing how the pandemic began.
The investigator said the country’s failure to pass on the information has likely complicated efforts to understand how the outbreak began.
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Dominic Dwyer is one of 10 members of the World Health Organization (WHO) team investigating the origins of the Covid-19 pandemicCredit: AFP or licensors
Coronavirus DID start in China and exploded at a Wuhan wet market after spreading from bats - despite Beijing s claim it could have arrived on frozen Australian beef, WHO scientist says
An Australian scientist part of the WHO s Covid fact-finding mission in China said the virus started in Wuhan
WHO scientists have lent credence to Beijing s assertions that the Covid pandemic originated outside China
The investigators rubbished theory Covid leaked from a lab as fact-finding mission to China concludes
WHO called for further studies into whether virus was imported into China, possibly on frozen foods
Findings will be a PR coup for Beijing, which has repeatedly pointed finger of blame for pandemic overseas