Covid vaccine scheme 'unacceptably slow' in Europe, says WHO
Hans Kluge urges ramping up of manufacturing and asks governments to share excess shots

Hans Kluge urges ramping up of manufacturing and asks governments to share excess shots
The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) says further investigation is needed to conclusively rule out a theory that Covid-19 emerged from a laboratory in China.
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Peter Ben Embarek, a WHO virus expert, also told a press briefing that work to identify the origins of the coronavirus points to a natural reservoir in bats, but it is unlikely that they were in Wuhan, the central Chinese city where the outbreak was discovered in late 2019.
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