WHO calls on China for 'full access' for Covid investigators

By Agence France-Presse

Sep 18, 2023 5:30 am

GENEVA, Switzerland: The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) told the Financial Times he was ready to send a new mission of experts to China to investigate the origins of the coronavirus.

'We're pressing China to give full access, and we are asking countries to raise it during their bilateral meetings — [to urge Beijing] to co-operate,' Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told the British newspaper.

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