More Than a Year After Declaring Pandemic, WHO Calls for ‘Audits’ of Wuhan Labs

More Than a Year After Declaring Pandemic, WHO Calls for ‘Audits’ of Wuhan Labs
Chief of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus during a meeting at the WHO headquarters in Geneva on May 24, 2021. Laurent Gillieron/AFP via Getty Images
Isabel van Brugen
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The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday called for an audit of laboratories in Wuhan, China, as part of a second phase of investigations into the origins of COVID-19 after the first phase failed to secure transparency and information sharing from the Chinese regime.

A key priority to moving toward a deeper investigation into the origins of COVID-19 will include “audits of relevant laboratories and research institutions operating in the area of the initial human cases identified in December 2019,” WHO chief Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said during a closed-door meeting.

Isabel van Brugen
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Isabel van Brugen is an award-winning journalist. She holds a master's in newspaper journalism from City, University of London.
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