The World Health Organization has urged China to share data to help understand the origins of Covid-19, five years on from the start of the pandemic in the Chinese city of Wuhan.

Dec. 31 (UPI) --The World Health Organization marked the fifth anniversary of the emergence of COVID-19 on Tuesday by reiterating its call for China to release the data it holds and allow outside access to help the international scientific community get to ...

China has shared the most COVID-19 data and research results in the international community, its foreign ministry said on Tuesday, after the World Health Organization repeated its call for more information and access.

The World Health Organization on Monday implored China to share data and access to help understand how Covid-19 began, five years on from the start of the pandemic that upended the planet.

China defended its approach to sharing Covid data and collaborating with global agencies after the World Health Organization urged the country to provide more information to help uncover the origins of the virus.

China has shared the most COVID-19 data and research results among the international community, and that work tracing the origins of the coronavirus should be carried out in other countries, its foreign ministry said on Tuesday.

Beijing insisted on Tuesday that it had shared information on Covid-19 "without holding anything back", after the World Health Organization implored China to offer more data and access to understand

The Chinese government claimed that more clues regarding the source of the virus are emerging on the global scale and that studies tracing its origin should be approached from a global perspective.