WHO Chief Toughens Tone On China With Lab Probe Call
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The director-general of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus also rebuked China for sitting on key data.
The WHO's chief, long accused of complacency towards Beijing, hardened his tone Tuesday, urging further investigation into a theory Covid-19 sprang from a laboratory leak. The director-general of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus also rebuked China for sitting on key data. The theory that the new coronavirus may have escaped from a lab in Wuhan, the Chinese city where it was first detected in humans in December 2019, was a US favourite under former president Donald Trump. China has always flatly rejected the hypothesis.More Related News