Tedros Adhanom ghebreyesus says that the Covid-19 pandemic it was the most severe health emergency of the last centurywhich caused death to “about 20 million people” and harshly affected the world economy.
A This Friday admitted that all hypotheses about the origin of COVID-19 “remain open”, noting that China, where the first cases were reported, did not provide all the information to the institution.
“We continue to ask China and any other country to have information about the origin of COVID-19 to shape them openly to defend the world against future epidemics,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters after the presentation of a report of experts on the source of the pandemic.
“All [quatro] hypotheses remain open, including a zoonotic transmission [de animais para humanos] or a laboratory escape of viruses, “said Tedros, insisting that, in the present state of things, “All hypotheses must remain open.”
“WHO, however, recognizes that China has shared some […] Information, but not all we requested, “he said.
The report, prepared by the WHO Scientific Advisory Group on the origins of new pathogenic agents (Sago), was unable to reach a conclusion about COVID-19.
The question of whether Covid-19 accidentally escaped from a laboratory or spread from an animal to humans continue to be debated.
Part of the scientific community lean into the thesis of a transmission to man through an intermediate animal, probably infected by a bat.
Similarly, some US agencies, such as the FBI (internal secret services of the United States) or the Ministry of Energy, support the hypothesis of a laboratory escape With various degrees of certainty, while other intelligence organisms include the natural origin.
“In the last five years, we have learned a lot about COVID-19, but there is still a crucial question about the pandemic we haven’t answered: how it started,” said Tedros.
“It is essential to understand how an epidemiological outbreak, an epidemic or a pandemic begins to prevent future outbreaks. It is also a moral imperative for the good of those who lose their lives because of them,” he noted.
Tedros recalled that it was the most severe health emergency of the last centurywhich caused death to “about 20 million people” and harshly affected the world economy.
“And we can’t talk about Covid-19 in the past. Although the crisis has passed, the virus remains. It continues to evolve, it continues to kill and millions of people continue to live with ‘long Covid’,” he warned.
Until May 25 this year, according to WHO, nearly 800 million cases confirmed in 231 countries and territories were detected.
