The World Health Organization chief has pressed China to share its information about the origins of Covid-19, saying that until that happened all hypotheses remained on the table, more than three years after the virus first emerged. "Without full access to the information that China has, you cannot say this or that," said Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in response to a question about the origin of the virus. "All hypotheses are on the table.
That's WHO's position and that's why we have been asking China to be cooperative on this." "If they would do that then we will know what happened or how it started," he said.
The virus was first identified in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019, with many suspecting it spread in a live animal market before fanning out around the world and killing nearly 7 million people.
Data from the early days of the Covid pandemic was briefly uploaded by Chinese scientists to an international database last month.