The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced the results of the fight against this disease and the ongoing efforts to study it, five years after the emergence of COVID-19.

Axar.az reports that the press service of the WHO published information about this.

WHO recalled that on December 31, 2019, the China Country Office found a press release on the website of the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission about cases of "viral pneumonia" in the city.

"In the coming weeks, months and years, COVID-19 has changed our lives and our world," the UN agency said.

Worldwide, 777,074,803 infections and more than seven million deaths caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus have been confirmed. "We continue to urge China to share and provide access to data so that we can understand the origins of COVID-19," the WHO said.

"This is a moral and scientific imperative. Without transparency, information exchange, and cooperation between countries, the world cannot adequately prevent and prepare for future epidemics and pandemics," the statement said.