Coronavirus: WHO report on mission to find Covid-19 origin ‘coming soon’
- ‘We are at the point where we are cleaning up the document to make sure all the experts are OK with the content,’ says Danish scientist who was part of the team that visited China
- But head of WHO’s health emergencies programme says document will be sent to member nations before being released to the public
The agency was now fact checking and translating the document, Peter Ben Embarek, a Danish scientist and WHO programme manager who was involved in the trip, said on Friday.
“We are at the point where we are cleaning up the document to make sure all the experts are OK with the content,” he said.
“I expect that in the next few days the whole process will be completed and we’ll be able to release it publicly.”
Michael Ryan, executive director of WHO’s health emergencies programme, said the report would first be sent to member states for discussion before it was released to the public.
“We want to show our respect for our member states and share the report with them first as they are the ones who worked very closely with the director general to ensure this work was completed,” he said.