China has shared the most data on the Covid-19 coronavirus and research results with the international community, the country’s Ministry of Health said, after the World Health Organization (WHO) again requested more information and greater access to data.
China has also been the only one to organize experts to share data on traceability progress with the WHO on many occasions, Mao Ning, a spokesman for the foreign ministry, told a news conference.
Yesterday, the WHO again asked China to share data and provide access to understand the origins of Covid-19, the first cases of which were discovered in central China five years ago.
According to the WHO, over 760 million cases of Covid-19 and 6.9 million deaths have been recorded worldwide. He declared the end of Covid-19 as a global health crisis in mid-2023, but said the disease should be a permanent reminder of the potential for new viruses to emerge with devastating consequences.
Data from the first days of the pandemic were transferred by Chinese scientists to an international database in early 2023, a few months after China lifted all its restrictions related to the coronavirus and reopened its borders to the rest of the world.
