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Discovering the origins of COVID-19 is a moral imperative and all hypotheses must be explored, the head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) said, in the clearest indication yet that the UN body remains committed to finding how the virus arose.

Director-General of the World Health Organisation Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus gives a statement with German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach in Geneva, Switzerland, February 2, 2023. REUTERS/Denis BalibouseDirector-General of the World Health Organisation Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus gives a statement with German Health Minister Karl Lauterbach in Geneva, Switzerland, February 2, 2023.

“Understanding #COVID19’s origins and exploring all hypotheses remains: a scientific imperative, to help us prevent future outbreaks a moral imperative, for the sake of the millions of people who died and those who live with #LongCOVID,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Twitter late on Saturday. Activists, politicians and academics said in an open letter this weekend that the focus of the anniversary should be on preventing a repeat of the unequal COVID-19 vaccine rollout, saying this led to at least 1.3 million preventable deaths.a WHO-led team spent weeks in and around Wuhan, China where the first human cases were reported

 

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Simply 🤞

The WHO was not elected by South Africans as a health regulator. Why are we listening to them

Of only we had real journalists

The free thinking public is already way past this covid thing.

From a lab in Wuhan. There is no history you clown…

From a lab in Wuhan. There is no mystery you clown…

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