The World Health Organization’s head stated that he hopes for greater cooperation with China and better access to data in order to find the source of the coronavirus.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director General, says that getting raw data was a problem for the international team of experts who traveled to China in this year’s investigation into the outbreak. This is the first time the outbreak has been reported from Wuhan.
Tedros claims that the Geneva-based organization is asking China to be transparent, open, and cooperate. This includes information on raw data we requested in the early days.
He said that there was a premature push to rule out the possibility that the coronavirus may have escaped from a Chinese government laboratory in Wuhan.
He said, “I used to be a lab technician, but I am now an immunologist and have worked in the laboratory, and it happens.” It’s quite common. It’s important to check what happened in our labs. We need direct information about the lab’s situation before and after the pandemic. If we have all the information we need, we can eliminate that.
Tedros said that the world owed it the millions of people who died in order to “know what happened” and prevent another crisis. That’s why cooperation is so important.
Jens Spahn from Germany, Germany’s health minister, echoed his words and urged Chinese officials for an investigation into the source of the virus.
