US, WHO seek early Covid data from China

WASHINGTON, D.C.: 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 coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) cases were first detected, but said they had not been able to shed light on the nature of early transmissions.