Because of the highly politicalized nature, some Chinese scientists begin to deposit SARS-CoV-2 sequences to their own databases (hosted in China).
https://ngdc.cncb.ac.cn/ncov/release_genome https://db.cngb.org/
https://ngdc.cncb.ac.cn/ncov/release_genome https://db.cngb.org/
More Chinese institutes are encouraging their scientists to deposit human bio-sample data to their own servers. Some grants even require them to do so.