The World Health Organisation and the Xi Jinping-led Chinese government have both agreed to independent inquiries probing the origins of the Covid-19 coronavirus, and the former’s handling of the virus
The WHO bowed to pressure from most of its member states, which have been calling for the launch of an independent probe into how the organisation managed the international response to Covid-19.
Responding to these calls, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he would launch an independent evaluation of the organisation’s response “at the earliest appropriate moment”. In his opening remarks at the WHA meeting, Ghebreyesus confirmed that the entire world and his organisation had been “humbled by this very small microbe”.
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