{"id":28357,"date":"2021-02-13T10:34:55","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T01:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/13\/all-hypotheses-on-covid-19-origins-still-being-investigated-says-who-boss"},"modified":"2021-02-13T10:34:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T01:34:55","slug":"all-hypotheses-on-covid-19-origins-still-being-investigated-says-who-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28357","title":{"rendered":"All hypotheses on Covid-19 origins still being investigated, says WHO boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Comments from Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus came after another WHO expert said laboratory theory was \u2018extremely unlikely\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organization says it has not ruled out any theory on the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, despite one top official appearing to dismiss the idea it had escaped from a laboratory earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a briefing on Friday, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the WHO, said a summary report from the organization\u2019s team <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/28\/who-team-exits-wuhan-china-quarantine-covid-fact-finding-mission\">sent to Wuhan to investigate the origins of the virus<\/a> should be published next week, with a full report coming soon after.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/13\/all-hypotheses-on-covid-19-origins-still-being-investigated-says-who-boss\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comments from Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus came after another WHO expert said laboratory theory was \u2018extremely unlikely\u2019 The World Health Organization says it has not ruled out any theory on the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, despite one top offici&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":681,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,1066,346,1045,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-health","category-world-health-organization","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/681"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28357"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28426,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28357\/revisions\/28426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}