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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization, said he is asking China to be more transparent as scientists search for the origins of the coronavirus. Laurent Gillieron/AP hide caption
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The WHO's Chief Says It Was Premature To Rule Out A Lab Leak As The Pandemic's Origin
July 15, 2021 • Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said there had been a "premature push" to rule out the theory that the coronavirus might have escaped from a Chinese government lab in Wuhan.