In response to recent foreign media reports, the author team of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention has deleted the data uploaded to the GISAID platform. Shen Hongbing, deputy director of China's National Disease Control Administration, said in Beijing on the 8th that our team and platform have not deleted data, and the data access link for magazine review has always been there.
In addition, the latest version of the paper has been officially published online in the journal Nature on April 4, and all the original data has been released simultaneously in four international and Chinese databases.