Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) promised this Wednesday do everything to have an “answer” about the origin of covid-19. “There is a scientific and moral dimension to this problem and we have to keep pushing until we get an answer“, about the origin of the pandemic which started in China at the end of 2019. WHO director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters in Geneva.

The person in charge indicated that he had recently sent an official email to a senior Chinese official to ask again in cooperation with Beijing and trying to determine where and when the covid-19 virus began to spread, until it became the worst pandemic of the century.

An article in the scientific journal Nature published this week claims that it is WHO gave up on the continuation of the second phase of the investigation origin of the pandemicgiven the lack of cooperation from the Chinese authorities.

Quoted in the article, Dr Maria Van Kerkhove, who has been in charge of fighting the pandemic at the WHO since its inception, said the statement was the result of “Error reporting information.”

“The WHO he did not abandon the study of the origin of covid“, he confirmed this Wednesday at a press conference, and insisted: “We will not stop until we find out the origin (…) which is increasingly difficult, because as time passes, it is increasingly difficult to understand what happened in the first moments of the pandemic.

In February 2020, a team of experts from various disciplines, led by WHO and accompanied by Chinese colleagues, spent two weeks in that Asian country to discover the beginning of the epidemic in Wuhan.

The joint report then leaned toward hypothesis of transmission to humans from animals, maybe at the market in this Chinese city.

The second theory, which is defended by the US intelligence services under the Trump administration, but also by some scientists, speaks of an accident, that is, that the virus “escaped” from the laboratory in Wuhan, where SARS CoV-type coronaviruses are studied. -2.

From February 14, 2023. The World Health Organization has officially counted 6.84 million deaths worldwide from covid-19, and more than 756 million confirmed cases. The organization admits that the real numbers are much higher.