<span style="color: #222222;">China has refused to give raw data on early COVID-19 cases to a World Health Organization-led team probing the origins of the pandemic. According to reports, one of the team's investigators revealed this to the media. The development potentially complicates efforts to understand how the outbreak began.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"> </span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">The WHO team had requested raw patient data on 174 cases of COVID-19 that China had identified from the early phase of the outbreak in Wuhan in December 2019. However, according to a team member, reportedly, the team was only provided with a summary.</span>