On Saturday, the White House called on China to make available data from the earliest days of the COVID-19 outbreak, saying it has "deep concerns" about the way the findings of the World Health Organization's COVID-19 report were communicated.
White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said in a statement that the report must be independent and free from "alteration by the Chinese government," echoing concerns raised by the administration of former President Donald Trump, who also moved to quit the WHO over the issue.
On Friday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said all hypotheses are still open about the origins of COVID-19 after Washington said it wanted to review data from a WHO-led mission to China, where the virus first emerged.
A WHO-led mission, which spent four weeks in China looking into the origins of the COVID-19 outbreak, said this week that it was not looking further into the question of whether the virus escaped from a lab, which it considered highly unlikely.
The Trump administration had said it suspected the virus might have escaped from a Chinese lab, which Beijing vehemently denies.
