The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has urged China to provide more information about the origins of COVID-19.
He expressed the WHO’s readiness to send a second team to investigate the matter. Ghebreyesus emphasized the need for China to cooperate fully and urged other countries to raise the issue during their bilateral meetings with Beijing.
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The WHO has been pressing China for information on the origins of the virus, as various hypotheses remain under consideration. COVID-19 was first identified in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 and has since spread globally, resulting in significant morbidity and mortality.
