Newspaper: The World Health Director urges China to give the organization “full access” to determine the origins of Covid
Published on: September 17, 2023: 02:04 PM GST Last updated: September 17, 2023: 02:28 PM GST
The Financial Times reported on Sunday that Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, urged China to provide more information regarding the origins of… Covid-19 virusHe explained the organization’s readiness to send a second team to Beijing to investigate the matter.
“We are pressuring China to give us full access, and we ask countries to raise the matter in their bilateral meetings, to urge Beijing to cooperate,” Tedros told the newspaper.
The statements of the Director-General of the World Health Organization come at a time when health authorities and pharmaceutical companies around the world are racing to update vaccines to combat new variants of the Coronavirus.
Tedros has long been pressing China to share information it has about the origins of the Covid-19 virus, saying all assumptions remain until Beijing makes such a move.
The virus first appeared in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019, and many suspect it spread in a live animal market before moving around the world and causing the deaths of nearly seven million people.
2023-09-17 10:04:00
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