US, WHO demand more data on origins of pandemic

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WASHINGTON — The United States and a World Health Organization (WHO) expert demanded more data from Beijing on Saturday about the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, after a WHO mission to China struggled to make headway.

A team of WHO experts and Chinese counterparts visited key sites around the city of Wuhan, where COVID-19 cases were first detected, but said they had not been able to shed light on the nature of early transmissions.

US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said his country had “deep concerns” about the early findings of the investigation.

Peter Ben Embarek, who led the WHO mission, told Agence France-Presse (AFP) in an interview his team had asked for…

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