WHO chief vows to ‘push until we get the answer’ on COVID-19 origins

World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a news convention on COVID-2019 in Geneva, Switzerland February 24, 2020. REUTERS/ Denis Balibouse/ File picture

GENEVA — The World Health Organization will proceed pushing till it finds a solution to how the COVID-19 pandemic began, the company chief mentioned Wednesday following a report suggesting it had deserted the search.

“We need to continue to push until we get the answer,” Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus advised reporters, referring to the seek for the origins of the virus that first started spreading in China in late 2019. — Agence France-Presse