WHO Urges Countries to Reveal Intelligence on COVID-19 Origins After FBI Director’s Statements

Chief of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus during a meeting at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, on May 24, 2021. Laurent Gillieron/AFP via Getty Images

In another narrative shift on the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) asked governments with intelligence on the virus to come forward, after a growing number of U.S. officials signaled that it may have resulted from a Chinese lab leak.

“If any country has information about the origins of the pandemic, it’s essential for that information to be shared with WHO and the international scientific community,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on March 3.