Share Covid data, World Health Organization tells China
Wuhan in China was where Covid first emerged
The World Health Organization has urged China to share data on the origins of the Covid pandemic, five years on from its start in the city of Wuhan.
"This is a moral and scientific imperative," the WHO said in a statement to mark what it called the "milestone" anniversary.
"Without transparency, sharing, and co-operation among countries, the world cannot adequately prevent and prepare for future epidemics and pandemics," it added.
Many scientists think the virus transferred naturally from animals to humans, but some suspicions persist that it escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan.
China has not responded to Monday's WHO statement. In the past it has strongly rejected the lab leak theory.
In September, a team of scienti...