WHO calls for publication of 'all data' on first Covid cases

The World Health Organization (WHO) has stressed that it needs "all the data" on Covid to investigate the hypothesis of a laboratory leak in China, inviting all countries "including China" to share data on the first cases. "Specifically, to address the 'lab hypothesis' it is important to have access to all the data, to consider the best scientific practices and to examine the mechanisms that the WHO already has in place," the WHO said in a statement. a statement, pointing out that China had suggested that the WHO was acting under political pressure regarding studies on the origin of the coronavirus. "Sharing the data and allowing the re-examination of samples (...) is nothing more than what we urge all countries, including China, to support so that we can move forward in the study of origins ( of the pandemic) quickly and efficiently," the WHO said in a statement. The WHO has stressed that it is "of vital importance" to know how the Covid-19 epidemic began. Based on "what we have already learned, the next round of studies will include a review of raw data on the first cases and the first potential cases in 2019," the organization added.

Algeria, bereaved, still at war against devastating fires

Firefighters and volunteers, who are benefiting from the start of international aid, are fighting tirelessly against the flames ravaging northern Algeria, on the first day of national mourning decreed to honor the 71 people who died in these fires fueled by the extreme heat. In the evening, the Algerian president announced, in a brief televised speech, the arrest of 22 suspects accused of being arsonists", including 11 in Tizi Ouzou, a large city in Kabylia, a Berber-speaking region in northeastern Algeria. , traditionally rebellious against the central power.The largest country in the Maghreb is still plagued by multiple devastating fires, which have already claimed the lives of 43 civilians and 28 soldiers, according to a latest report. dying and besieged villages: the fires have also sown desolation as they pass through Kabylie, a region in northeastern Algeria.

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