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World Health Organization Head Now ‘Privately’ Blames Chinese Lab For Coronavirus Pandemic: Report

Ryan Saavedra
World Health Organization Head Now ‘Privately’ Blames Chinese Lab For Coronavirus Pandemic: Report
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The director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO) reportedly believes that the coronavirus pandemic originated from a leak in a Chinese laboratory back in late 2019.

The Mail, a British newspaper, reported that Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus “privately believes the Covid pandemic started following a leak from a Chinese laboratory,” according to a top government official. “While publicly the group maintains that ‘all hypotheses remain on the table’ about the origins of Covid, the source said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), had recently confided to a senior European politician that the most likely explanation was a catastrophic accident at a laboratory in Wuhan, where infections first spread in late 2019.”

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