Covid-19 crisis: China sitting on key data on lab leak, says WHO chief

14 countries raise concerns over joint report by WHO-China on Covid origin

The World Health Organization’s chief said a mission to study the origins of the coronavirus in China was too quick to dismiss the theory of a lab leak, with the US and other governments joining in criticism of the investigation.
 
Meanwhile, a group of 14 countries including the United States and Japan has raised concerns over a report on the origins of Covid-19 by the WHO and China, arguing that the WHO team was "significantly delayed and lacked access to complete, original data and samples."
 
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the probe didn’t adequately analyze the possibility