Beijing Continue To Urge WHO Not To Pursue 'Lab Leak' Theory

World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a news conference in Geneva, April 12, 2021.

VOA: Beijing Urges WHO Leader Not to Pursue 'Lab Leak' Theory

WASHINGTON - China is lashing out at the chief of the World Health Organization for suggesting that more

study is needed into the possibility that the coronavirus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic initially escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan, China.

Global Times, an influential news outlet controlled by China's ruling Communist Party, pointed this week to comments by Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the Ethiopian-born director-general of the WHO, to the effect "that further investigation is needed on the hypothesis of a 'lab leak' being the origin of COVID-19."

The front-page report quoted a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson urging "the WHO to play a leading role in respecting science."

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