The boss of the World Health Organization urged Beijing to provide more information on the origins of COVID-19 and is willing to send a second team to investigate the matter, the Financial Times reported on Sunday.
“We are pressuring China to give full access to information and we ask countries to raise this in their bilateral meetings, to urge Beijing to cooperate,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the WHO, told the newspaper.
The comments of the head of WHO They occur at a time when health authorities and pharmaceutical companies around the world are rushing to update vaccines to combat new variants of the coronavirus.
Ghebreyesus has long pressured China to share its information on the origins of COVID-19, stating that until that happens all hypotheses will remain on the table.
He virus It was first identified in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019, and many suspect that it spread in a animal market alive before spreading around the world and killing almost seven million people.
COVID-19: the US hypothesis
The Department of Energy USA referred to the origins of Covid-19 and pointed out that it probably arose from a leak in a laboratory China. However, US intelligence is divided over the motives.
Initially the North American organization had been against this theory, but a classified report by the Office of Avril Haine, Director of National Intelligencemarked a change in relation to the possible origin of the virus.
Sources who accessed the report affirm that the department He made his judgment with “little confidence”highlighting how different US agencies remain divided over the origins of covid-19, the pandemic that hit the world at the beginning of 2020.
The department concluded after analysis of a network of laboratories, including those conducting advanced biological research. In this way, the US Department of Energy agrees with the FBI in its theory of the origin of the pandemic.
Opinion among intelligence agencies is divided: four US organizations believe that covid arose through natural transmissionwhile two others have not yet decided, according to the Wall Street Journal.
The White House, meanwhile, remains distant on one claim: White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan He highlighted that “a variety of positions still persist” around the issue.. “Right now there is no definitive answer that has emerged from the intelligence community on this question,” he told CNN on Sunday.
The Chinese government fervently rejects the possibility that covid-19 has arisen from a leak in a laboratory and claims to feel “dirty” by the US department’s hypothesis and its new accusations.
Source: Ambito
