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WHO says it was premature to rule out lab leak as COVID-19 origin
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BERLIN - The head of the World Health Organization acknowledged it was premature to rule out a potential link between the COVID-19 pandemic and a laboratory leak, and he said Thursday he is asking China to be more transparent as scientists search for the origins of the coronavirus.
In a rare departure from his usual deference to powerful member countries, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said getting access to raw data had been a challenge for the international team that traveled to China earlier this year to investigate the source of COVID-19. The first human cases were identified in the Chinese city of Wuhan.
The Chinese government has attacked Australia over its support for an investigation. Now, we don t know about the lab and whether that was the initiation of this or not, Mr Morrison said. It may well have been, it may not have been. I don t have a view either way and I m not in a position to make that judgement.
He said the world deserved answers.
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said he is asking China to be more transparent as scientists search for the origins of the coronavirus.
Dr Tedros said getting access to raw data had been a challenge for the international team that travelled to China earlier this year to investigate the source of COVID-19.
WHO chief says it was premature to rule out COVID lab leak
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Send Tedros told reporters that the UN health agency based in Geneva is âasking actually China to be transparent, open and cooperate, especially on the information, raw data that we asked for at the early days of the pandemic.â
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The head of the World Health Organisation acknowledged it was premature to rule out a potential link between the COVID-19 pandemic and a laboratory leak, and he said Thursday he is asking China to be more transparent as scientists search for the origins of the coronavirus.