Blinken meets with WHO director to reaffirm US support for second probe into Covid outbreak POOL/AFP via Getty Images ALEX BRANDON/AFP/POOL/AFP via Getty Images Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with the director-general of the World Health Organization July 28 and underscored US support for further WHO studies into the origins of Covid-19 By Nicole Gaouette, CNN Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with the director-general of the World Health Organization Wednesday and underscored US support for further WHO studies into the origins of Covid-19, including research in China, the State Department said. Blinken and Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus met in Kuwait almost a week after China announced that it would not participate in the second phase of the WHO’s investigations into the virus’ origins after the health organization included the possibility that the virus escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China.