Friday, 16 Jul 2021 07:38 AM MYT Director General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks during a news conference in Geneva, Switzerland February 28, 2020. — Reuters pic Follow us on Instagram and subscribe to our Telegram channel for the latest updates. GENEVA, July 16 — The WHO chief urged China Thursday to be more cooperative in the next phase of investigations into the pandemic origins, demanding more access to raw data. Speaking to reporters in Geneva, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus also acknowledged that a prior push to all but rule out the possibility that Covid-19 may have escaped from a lab had been “premature”.