WHO SAGO’s official response to the Mar-2023 appearance of China CDC’s raw Huanan-market metagenomic data on GISAID/NGDC (see S-21 - China CDC raw metagenomic sequencing data release — Huanan market samples (NGDC GSA - NCBI BioProject)). Confirms the headline numbers (73/923 environmental samples positive) and that susceptible-species mitochondrial DNA (raccoon dog, Malayan porcupine, bamboo rat) co-occurs with SARS-CoV-2 in some samples, states this could offer leads on intermediate hosts, and calls on China to share the underlying data and any related unpublished analyses “immediately” — implicitly confirming the data had been available to Chinese authors for an extended period before this public release. relevance_note: an institutionally authoritative, contemporaneous confirmation of the raw data’s basic contours, independent of the Crits-Christoph/Bloom reanalysis dispute.