The WHO on Friday urged all countries to share their information about the origins of Covid, after the FBI and the US Department of Energy ruled that a laboratory leak caused the pandemic.
In recent days, the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic have attracted renewed attention.
“If a country has information about the origins of the pandemic, it is essential that this information be shared with the WHO and the international scientific community,” said the director general of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, during his conference regular press.
It is not about “pointing blame,” he said, but about “advancing our understanding of how this pandemic began, so that we can prevent, prepare for, and respond to future epidemics and pandemics.”
A laboratory accident?
FBI Director Christopher Wray said this week that a laboratory accident in Wuhan, China, is “very likely” the cause of the Covid-19 pandemic, two days after a similar hypothesis was put forward by the Department of US Health ‘Energy’.
Asked specifically about this, Maria Van Kerkhove, head of response to Covid-19 at the WHO, explained that the agency had requested information from senior officials at the US Representation to the United Nations in Geneva.
“We have sent requests (…) for information on the latest report from the Department of Energy, but also on additional reports from various US agencies,” he explained.
“At this time, we do not have access to these reports or the data that made these reports possible,” he said.
The scientific community believes that it is crucial to know the origins of this scourge in order to better combat it or even avoid a future pandemic.
Source: BFM TV
