The WHO said in February that Covid-19 'most likely' originated in animals before spreading to humans. China has rejected a second phase of investigation.
SINGAPORE — It is important to know the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic — but that's not possible without "radical and complete transparency," said Singapore's Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan.
"Let me speak as a scientist, or as a doctor: What we need is radical and complete transparency. Without everyone sharing the data and being able to analyze it critically, it will be almost impossible to really get down to the bottom of this," Balakrishnan told CNBC's ""It is important, etiology is important, not for political or diplomatic reasons — it's for the future.
Balakrishnan was a medical doctor before entering politics two decades ago. In May, the minister told CNBC thatThe virus that caused Covid infections first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019.
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