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Coronavirus happened ‘naturally’, not in a lab: WHO

(FILES) In this file photo taken on March 11, 2020 World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a daily press briefing on COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, at the WHO heardquaters in Geneva. - Congressional Republicans on April 16, 2020 urged President Donald Trump to condition US funding for the World Health Organization on the resignation of its chief over his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Seventeen Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee said they had "lost faith" in Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus's WHO leadership, even as they stressed the organization is vital to tackling the world's health problems. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)

The coronavirus is something that has happened naturally, the World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reiterated on Friday.

“WHO believes in science and evidence and that’s why we say science, solutions and solidarity. And our colleague, I think the person who asked from India, said, there was a media interview that someone saying that the virus came from a lab,” said Tedros at a press briefing.

But as far as we’re concerned, and so far, all the publications we have seen, the publications say it’s actually something, the virus has happened naturally. It came naturally. So these are all the publications we know,” he added.

(Reuters)