WHO director admits to prematurely dismissing lab leak theory, says China needs to be more transparent

 

 

After dismissing the lab leak theory and praising China for being so transparent, the director of the World Health Organization changed course on Thursday.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus admitted that China had been less than forthcoming about requests for information related to the source of the pandemic and called for their cooperation.

He told reporters that the WHO was "asking actually China to be transparent, open and cooperate, especially on the information, raw data that we asked for at the early days of the pandemic."

Tedros went on to admit that experts had been too hasty in ruling out the possibility that the coronavirus had leaked from a Chinese government laboratory in Wuhan. Read More