A news report that said it delayed sharing COVID-19 information with the World Health Organization (WHO) is totally untrue, China's foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said on Wednesday.
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The comment was made during a daily briefing in response to a question about a report by the Associated Press, which said the WHO was frustrated by significant delays in information sharing by Beijing as the coronavirus outbreak took hold in China in January.
China has been sharing information about the virus and the epidemic with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the world based on the principles of "early, fast and transparent" since the beginning of the pandemic, Wu Zunyou, chief epidemiologist at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, said on May 19.