Public stance on outbreak remains neutral (Image: Reuters / Getty Images)
The leader of the World Health Organization (WHO) privately believes that Covid was “leaked from a laboratory”, it has been claimed.
Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus privately confessed to a European politician that the most likely cause of the outbreak was a catastrophic accident in a laboratory in Wuhan, according to a government source quoted in the Mail on Sunday.
This is despite the fact that the organization has publicly stated that “all the hypotheses are still on the table”.
In the past, the WHO has been criticized for accepting that a laboratory leak was just a “conspiracy theory.”
But the organization has increasingly taken a “neutral” public stance after limited evidence has been found suggesting a “zoonotic” speed: the process by which a virus passes from an animal to a human.
Western intelligence services first issued concerns about the Wuhan Institute of Virology in April 2020, suggesting that scientists were manipulating bat coronaviruses in caves 1,000 miles away from the center.
These caves may be where Covid-19 originated.
Speech by Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus in the European Union (Image: Reuters)
Dr Tedros recently told member states in an update on the disease: “We still don’t have the answers on where it came from or how it entered the human population.
“Understanding the origins of the virus is very important scientifically to prevent future epidemics and pandemics.
“But morally we owe it to all those who have suffered and died and to their families. The longer it takes, the harder it becomes. We need to accelerate and act with a sense of urgency. ‘
He added that “all hypotheses must remain on the table.”
It has long been claimed that the virus leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (Image: Getty Images) Not everyone believes the virus escaped from a laboratory (Image: AFP via Getty Images)
An original report concluded that the SARS-CoV-2 virus probably passed from humans to a bat through another unidentified species.
But people like the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia and 14 other countries criticized the findings because they were so committed.
Dr. Tedros admitted that the report was defective and ordered the new process.
A WHO spokesman said: “Dr Tedros has been constantly saying that all hypotheses are still on the table as scientists continue their work.”
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