World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus deemed the quest for COVID-19's origins both a scientific and moral imperative as the organization passed the three-year anniversary of classifying the illness as a pandemic.
"Understanding #COVID19's origins and exploring all hypotheses remains: a scientific imperative, to help us prevent future outbreaks a moral imperative, for the sake of the millions of people who died and those who live with #LongCOVID," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus tweeted late Saturday.
Three years after COVID-19 first wreaked havoc on the world and causes trillions of dollars worth of damage to the global economy, its origins remain unknown. Two prevailing theories are that it stemmed from natural transmission spillover or a lab leak.
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