Get all your news in one place.
100's of premium titles.
One app.
Start reading
Radio France Internationale
Radio France Internationale
World
RFI

Five years on, WHO repeats call for China to share Covid data

A farewell ceremony in April 2020 for the last group of medical workers who came from outside Wuhan to help the city during its Covid-19 outbreak. © Ng Han Guan/AP

Five years after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, the United Nations’ health organisation has called on China to share data to understand how it began.

"We continue to call on China to share data and access so we can understand the origins of Covid-19. This is a moral and scientific imperative," the World Health Organisation (WHO) reiterated, in a statement published Tuesday on the anniversary of the first reports of the virus in the Chinese city of Wuhan.

Sign up to read this article
Read news from 100's of titles, curated specifically for you.
Already a member? Sign in here
Related Stories
Top stories on inkl right now
One subscription that gives you access to news from hundreds of sites
Already a member? Sign in here
Our Picks
Fourteen days free
Download the app
One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.