{"id":28440,"date":"2021-02-14T20:30:40","date_gmt":"2021-02-14T11:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/14\/who-investigator-claims-china-refused-to-hand-over-key-covid-information"},"modified":"2021-02-14T20:30:40","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T11:30:40","slug":"who-investigator-claims-china-refused-to-hand-over-key-covid-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28440","title":{"rendered":"WHO investigator claims China refused to hand over key Covid information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian infection expert, part of a team visiting Wuhan, says they were provided only with a summary of data<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There is growing controversy over a World Health Organization investigation into the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic after one of its members said China had refused to hand over key data, and the US national security adviser said he had \u201cdeep concerns\u201d about the initial findings.<\/p>\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/14\/china-records-first-covid-death-since-may-as-who-team-arrives-in-wuhan\" title=\"\">international delegation travelled<\/a> to the Chinese city of Wuhan last month, as part of efforts to understand how the outbreak began. Dominic Dwyer, an Australian infectious disease expert who was part of the team, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2021-02-13\/china-refused-to-provide-who-with-raw-data-on-covid-cases\/13152786\" title=\"\">said they had requested raw patient data<\/a> but were only given a summary.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/14\/who-investigator-claims-china-refused-to-hand-over-key-covid-information\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian infection expert, part of a team visiting Wuhan, says they were provided only with a summary of dataCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThere is growing controversy over a World Health Organization investigation into &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,1066,346,914,1045,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-health","category-infectious-diseases","category-world-health-organization","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28443,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28440\/revisions\/28443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}