Researchers looking into the origins of the virus have had access to an international database revoked in a row over data from the early days of the pandemic.
While studies to date had largely relied on data of the virus when it was already in human circulation, the unpublished data at the center of the latest dispute originated from environmental samples collected at the wet market from animals.
This, it said, was because the Western scientists had scooped the data—i.e. published it before the originator had a chance to—which amounted to a breach of its terms of use."We are well aware of these terms of use, have not breached them, and have no intention of breaching them," the researchers wrote.
An aerial view shows the P4 laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on April 17, 2020. Opened in 2018, it has been accused by some U.S. officials of being the source of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic."Data contributors frequently update their records with the help of GISAID's data curation team.
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