WHO Report on COVID-19 Origins Likely Pushed Back a Week

A highly anticipated report from the World Health Organization on the origins of COVID-19 is “likely” to be delayed until next week.

Security personnel stand guard outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan as members of the World Health Organization team investigating the origins of the CCP virus make a visit to the institute in Wuhan, China, on Feb. 3, 2021. Hector Retamal /AFP via Getty Images

A highly anticipated report from the World Health Organization (WHO) on the origins of COVID-19 based on its findings in Wuhan, China, is “likely” to be delayed until next week, a spokesman for the health agency said Tuesday.

WHO spokesman Christian Lindmeier told a United Nations briefing that the final report has been pushed back because it was “simply not ready,” and the team of experts that traveled to China to examine the origins of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, which causes the disease COVID-19, “want to get it right.”