Mike Ryan, Executive Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Emergency Program, speaks at a press conference on the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) in Geneva, Switzerland.
Denis Balibouse | Reuters
A senior World Health Organization official said Friday that investigations into the origins of Covid-19 are “poisoned by politics.”
UD President Joe Biden announced on Wednesday that he has ordered intelligence agencies “to prepare a report on their most recent analysis of the origins of Covid-19, including whether it was from a human’s contact with an infected animal or from.” emerged from a laboratory accident. ” “”
The WHO has been under increasing pressure from US and European officials in recent days to re-examine whether the coronavirus could have escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan, China after a previously undisclosed US intelligence report came out which revealed that three researchers sought hospital care for a disease with Covid-like symptoms in November 2019.
Dr. Mike Ryan, executive director of the WHO’s health emergencies program, asked if countries could separate politics from science.
“Putting WHO in a position as it has been instituted is very unfair to the science we want to do and, frankly, puts us in the impossible position as an organization to provide the answers the world wants.” Ryan said at a press conference.
