The Latest Breaking News from Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

In March 2020, weeks before the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic, its director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus delivered a speech in which he emphasised the importance of testing:

Twitter CEO Elon Musk said on Thursday in a tweet that countries should not "cede authority" to the World Health Organization, and the U.N. health agency's chief quickly rejected his comments.

Genetic material collected at a Chinese market near where the first human cases of COVID-19 were identified show raccoon dog DNA comingled with the virus, suggesting the pandemic may have originated from animals, not a lab, international experts say. Other experts have not yet verified their analysis, which has yet…

The mystery to the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic now has some new clues

Discovering the origins of COVID-19 is a moral imperative and all hypotheses must be explored, the head of the World Health Organization said, in his strongest comments yet that the UN body remains committed to finding how the virus arose. A US agency was reported by the Wall Street Journal…

Three years ago, the novel coronavirus swept the world. Here are 24 quotes and 13 photos that sum up the reaction in the weeks before the World Health Organization's declaration of a global pandemic.

Three years ago, on March 11 2020, World Health Organization (WHO) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus first formally described COVID-19 as a pandemic.

The World Health Organization has fired its top official in the Western Pacific

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says ‘all hypotheses on the origins of the virus remain on the table’.

All COVID-19 origin theories remain on the table, WHO leader says

The World Health Organization said all hypotheses for the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic are still on the table, after U.S. authorities this week backed the theory that the virus originated from a lab.