China rebuffs WHO official’s claims it has withheld COVID-19 data


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The head of China's Center for Disease Control and Prevention on Saturday accused World Health Organization officials of politicizing the inquiry into the origins of COVID-19. File Photo by EPA-EFE/Roman Pilipey April 8 (UPI) -- A top Chinese government health official on Saturday accused the World Health Organization of politicizing the investigation into the origins of COVID-19 pandemic. Shen Hongbing, the director of China's Center for Disease Control, said statements from a WHO leader accusing China of withholding crucial information that could help identify the origins of the global pandemic were "a crude offense to the scientists around the world...