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WHO continues search for Covid origins

GENEVA: The World Health Organization will continue pushing until it finds an answer to how the Covid-19 pandemic started, the agency's chief said Wednesday following a report suggesting it had abandoned the search.

Solving the mystery of where the SARS CoV-2 virus came from and how it began spreading among humans is considered vital for averting future pandemics.

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. XINHUA PHOTO WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. XINHUA PHOTO
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. XINHUA PHOTO