International Consensus to conduct Independent Investigation into COVID-19 Spread

World Health Organization (WHO) member states have agreed to set up an independent inquiry into the global response to the Coronavirus pandemic. The resolution was approved without objection by the WHO’s 194-member annual assembly meeting virtually in Geneva.

A document seen by Reuters on Monday showed that a draft resolution sponsored by the European Union and Australia calling for an independent review of the origins and spread of the Coronavirus had the support of 116 countries in the WHO, which is nearly enough to pass it.

China vehemently opposed Australia’s call last month for an independent international investigation into the causes and sources of the epidemic, and said it was too early to begin an investigation into the causes and the spread of the virus.