CORRECTED-China says it has shared the most COVID-19 data among countries

Corrects to say China says it shared the most COVID data, not it has shared most of its COVID data

BEIJING, Dec 31 (Reuters) - China has shared the most COVID-19 data and research results among the international community, and that work tracing the origins of the coronavirus should be carried out in other countries, its foreign ministry said on Tuesday.

In a statement on Monday, the World Health Organization again called on China to share data and access in efforts to understand the origins of COVID-19, the first cases of which were detected in central China five years ago.

(Reporting by Liz Lee and Ryan Woo; Editing by Kim Coghill)

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