Five years after the devastating COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) says it continues to call on China to share data on the disease outbreak.
The latest call came earlier this week as the WHO reflected on COVID-19 and ongoing efforts to understand the disease.
“We continue to call on China to share data and access so we can understand the origins of COVID-19,” WHO said.
“This is a moral and scientific imperative. Without transparency, sharing, and cooperation among countries, the world cannot adequately prevent and prepare for future epidemics and pandemics. “
The United Nations agency recalled that on 31 December 2019, its Country Office in China picked up a Wuhan Municipal Health Commission media statement from their website on cases of “viral pneumonia” in the city.
“In the weeks, months and years that unfolded after that, COVID-19 came to shape our lives and our world,” the WHO said on Monday.
The organisation noted that there had been 777.074,803 of the disease and over seven million deaths.
The agency also expressed gratitude to health workers “who sacrificed so much to care for us, and commit to learning from COVID-19 to build a healthier tomorrow.”
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