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The World Health Organisation was condemned last night amid claims that at least a third of its team investigating the origins of Covid have conflicts of interest due to research links or previous statements about the disease.
The team of 26 scientists, selected from 700 applicants, were named last week after the UN body had its initial efforts frustrated by China and was then widely criticised after they declared it ‘extremely unlikely’ that the pandemic began with a laboratory leak.
Michael Ryan, a senior WHO official, said the new Scientific Advisory Group on the Origins of Novel Pathogens (Sago) had possibly the last chance to discover the origins of Covid-19 ‘in a collegiate, collective and mutually responsible way’.
The World Health Organisation was condemned last night amid claims that a third of its team investigating origins of Covid have conflicts of interest. Pictured: Director
