Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who has been accused of complacency toward Beijing, also rebuked China for sitting on key data.
They said the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes Covid-19 disease most probably jumped from bats to humans via an intermediary animal, judging a lab leak to be an "extremely unlikely" source. Tedros also urged China to be more forthcoming with data - a call echoed by several countries led by the United States, Britain and Japan. Tedros said the Wuhan mission found that the first detected case had symptom onset on 8 December 2019 - but to understand the earliest cases, scientists would benefit from full access to data stretching back to at least September 2019.
Peter Ben Embarek, who led the international mission to Wuhan, said the report had "only scratched the surface" in the quest to find the origins of the pandemic, which has killed nearly 2.8 million people and battered the global economy. "Nobody has been able to pick up any firm arguments or proof or evidence that any of these labs would have been involved in a lab leak accident."He said there had been hours of discussions with laboratory staff and management. The documentation seen by the team had not led them to believe there was anything further left to explore.
Smoke & Mirrors.....have to distract from the fact covid not creating a pandemic, covid not detected by pcr test, Covid cases total fallacy.
People said this a year ago and were laughed at, now the ex director of the cdc in the states has said its probably a lab leak. The politicisation of this issue is reprehensible
WHO mostly likely is not proving anything, that is an uncertain political answer. It either came from a lab or it didn’t. It either came from bats or it didn’t. Figure it out
Where are all the armchair experts saying this was a conspiracy theory with no basis and that they should take off their tinfoil hats Gone very quiet very quickly.
Imagine if there were actually journalists in RTE that would look at Tedros and ask questions about his past, nevermind the manmade Whu Flu.
Governments are afraid to question for fear it would negatively affect trade with China.
Was Varadkar involved in the leak?
Finally! We who work in this area and KNOW China and what they are manufacturing could have told you this is NO natural virus! It is a bio weapon! But then again WHO are too close to the Chinese Government!
About time!
And so he should.....