WHO promises to continue investigation into the origin of Covid-19 – 02/15/2023 – Health

The director general of the WHO (World Health Organization), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, committed, this Wednesday (15), to do “everything possible” to have an “answer” on the origin of Covid-19.

“There is a scientific and moral dimension to this problem, and we have to keep pressing until we get an answer”, on the origin of the pandemic that began in China at the end of 2019, Tedros told the press in Geneva (SUI).

He said he had recently sent an official email to a high-ranking official in the Chinese government to again ask for Beijing’s collaboration in an attempt to try to determine where and when the Covid-19 virus began to spread, until become the worst pandemic in a century.

An article in the scientific journal Nature published this week states that the WHO has given up on continuing the second phase of the investigation into the origins of the pandemic, due to the lack of collaboration from the Chinese authorities.

Quoted in the article, Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, who is responsible at the WHO for combating the pandemic since its inception, claimed that this statement resulted from “an error in the way of disseminating information”.

“The WHO has not abandoned the study of the origin of Covid”, she guaranteed, in a press conference this Wednesday (15).

“We are not going to stop until we have known the origins (…) which is increasingly difficult, because, as time goes by, the more complicated it is to understand what happened in the first moments of the pandemic”, he added.

In February 2021, an interdisciplinary team of experts, led by the WHO and accompanied by Chinese colleagues, spent two weeks in the Asian country to scrutinize the beginning of the epidemic in Wuhan.
At the time, a joint report leaned towards the hypothesis of transmission to humans by an animal, possibly in a market in this Chinese city.

Defended by the US intelligence services during Donald Trump’s government and also by some scientists, another thesis is that there was an “accident”, that is, that the virus “escaped” from a laboratory in Wuhan, where the Sars-CoV-2 type coronavirus.

On February 14, 2023, the WHO officially counted 6.84 million deaths worldwide from Covid-19 and more than 756 million confirmed cases. The organization recognizes that the real numbers are much higher.