China denies WHO accusations that it refused to share data during investigation into Covid-19's origins

China has rebuffed accusations by the World Health Organization that it failed to share vital raw data during their investigation into the origins of Covid-19, insisting experts were given adequate access when they visited the country this year. The WHO is facing intensifying pressure for a new, in-depth investigation into the pandemic’s origins after the UN agency sent a team of independent, international experts to China’s Wuhan in January – more than a year after Covid-19 first surfaced there. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters on Thursday that one of the main challenges during the first phase of the…