"Understanding #COVID19's origins and exploring all hypotheses remains: a scientific imperative, to help us prevent future outbreaks (and) a moral imperative, for the sake of the millions of people who died and those who live with #LongCOVID," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said to mark three years since the WHO first used the word "pandemic" to describe the global outbreak of COVID-19.
A sanitation and epidemic prevention team worker checks passengers' body temperatures at a toll station in Wuhan, China on January 23, 2020, as the city goes into lockdown over the virus that would later be known as COVID-19. China Daily via REUTERS
GENEVA — Discovering the origins of COVID-19 is a moral imperative and all hypotheses must be explored, the head of the World Health Organization said, in the clearest indication yet that the UN body remains committed to finding how the virus arose.had likely been caused by an unintended Chinese laboratory leak,
raising pressure on the WHO to come up with answers. Beijing denies the assessment which could soon become public after the US House of Representatives voted this week to declassify it. "Understanding #COVID19's origins and exploring all hypotheses remains: a scientific imperative, to help us prevent future outbreaks a moral imperative, for the sake of the millions of people who died and those who live with #LongCOVID," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Twitter late on Saturday.
He was writing to mark three years since the WHO first used the word "pandemic" to describe the global outbreak of COVID-19.
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