WHO Urges the World to Cooperate Better with Covid Origin Investigation

The World Health Organization said Friday (July 23) that all countries should cooperate to find out the origin of the coronavirus a day after China rejected the proposed scope of a second phase of the investigation.

In response to a question about China’s refusal, said Tarik Yasarvic, a spokesman for the organization, at a press briefing in Geneva, that it is not about politics, nor about who is to blame for the spread of the virus. He added that it is mainly about trying to understand how the epidemic reached humans, stressing that from this point of view, countries should cooperate with the organization “in a spirit of partnership.”

On Thursday, a senior health official said that China rejected the WHO’s plan to conduct the second phase of investigation into the origin of the Coronavirus, which includes the hypothesis that it may have leaked from a Chinese laboratory.

The first known cases appeared in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019, and it is believed that the virus was transmitted to humans from animals in the city’s market.