Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization, delivers a speech during the 75th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, on May 24, 2022. WHO member countries started formal negotiations on a new and far-reaching global treaty on pandemic prevention. Photo: AP
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization, delivers a speech during the 75th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, on May 24, 2022. WHO member countries started formal negotiations on a new and far-reaching global treaty on pandemic prevention. Photo: AP
David Dodwell
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Outside In by David Dodwell

Is pinning down the origins of Covid-19 necessary to prevent the next pandemic?

  • The latest US-China quarrel over the ‘lab leak’ theory only threatens the international trust and cooperation needed for WHO’s pandemic treaty to succeed

David Dodwell
David Dodwell

Updated: 10:53pm, 10 Mar, 2023

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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization, delivers a speech during the 75th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, on May 24, 2022. WHO member countries started formal negotiations on a new and far-reaching global treaty on pandemic prevention. Photo: AP
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization, delivers a speech during the 75th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, on May 24, 2022. WHO member countries started formal negotiations on a new and far-reaching global treaty on pandemic prevention. Photo: AP
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