“Delighted to meet with Premier Li Keqiang,” Tedros tweeted. “We talked about coronavirus and the need for an aggressive effort at VaccinEquity this year to vaccinate 70% of all populations,” he said, referring to the WHO’s campaign for fair access to vaccines around the world.
“We also discussed the need for stronger collaboration on the origins of the virus, based on science and evidence.”, he added.
The WHO created last year the Scientific Advisory Group on the Origins of New Pathogens (SAGO) and asked China to provide data to help any new investigation. China refused, citing patient privacy regulations.
China has consistently denied allegations that the virus leaked from a specialized laboratory in the city of Wuhan, where Covid-19 was first identified in late 2019.
A joint China-WHO study published last year all but ruled out the theory that it originated in a laboratory, saying the most likely hypothesis was that it infected humans naturally, probably through the wildlife trade.
Last November, China said that a declassified US intelligence report that the pandemic likely originated in a laboratory was unscientific and unreliable.
Source: Ambito
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