China fires back at US allegations of lack of transparency

Thea Koelsen Fischer of the World Health Organisation team arriving at Wuhan airport to depart the city after the WHO’s recent fact-finding tour ((Ng Han Guan/AP)

China hit back at the US on Sunday over allegations from the White House that Beijing withheld information about the coronavirus outbreak from World Health Organisation (WHO) investigators.

In a statement on Friday, White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Washington had “deep concerns about the way in which the early findings of the Covid-19 investigation were communicated and questions about the process used to reach them”.