WHO Report Says COVID Origins Uncertain, Beijing Withholding Information

The WHO director general said both zoonotic spillover and lab leak hypotheses ’must remain on the table,' and urged Beijing to share data.

World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus delivers a speech during the Philanthropy Asia Summit in Singapore on May 5, 2025. Roslan Rahman/AFP via Getty Images

A panel of World Health Organization (WHO) experts has said they were not able to draw a conclusion on the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic as the Chinese regime is still withholding information.

In a report published on June 27, the Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO), a 27-member expert panel established by WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in November 2021, called on “governments—especially those where the earliest human cases were confirmed,” to share information.