Australia welcomes growing support for Covid-19 inquiry at WHO meeting | Malay Mail

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SYDNEY, May 18 — A draft resolution pushed by the European Union and Australia calling for an independent review into the origins and spread of the coronavirus has support from 116 nations at the World Health Assembly, almost enough for it to pass, a document showed. The resolution on Covid-19...

Monday, 18 May 2020 03:04 PM MYT

The resolution on Covid-19 will be put forward tomorrow if it gains backing from two-thirds of the 194 members of the assembly, the governing body of the World Health Organisation. China had strongly opposed Australia's call last month for an international investigation into the pandemic. The resolution was comprehensive and included a call for"an examination of the zoonotic origins of the coronavirus," she added.

"I hope that China will participate," Australian Trade Minister Simon Birmingham said today as he welcomed building support for an inquiry.

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