Understanding the origin of COVID-19 is a "moral imperative," according to Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization.

According to Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director of the World Health Organization (WHO), learning the cause of COVID-19 is both morally and scientifically necessary to stop future epidemics. The head of the WHO repeated the significance of knowing the virus's origin on Twitter on Sunday.

After the US House Intelligence Committee approved a bill to declassify information regarding to the origin of COVID-19, the WHO director made his remarks. The part of the reports that is anticipated to be made public will also cover the theories that the virus came from a leak in a Chinese lab.

To help in the prevention of future outbreaks, it is scientifically essential that we understand the causes of #COVID19 and investigate all theories, according to Ghebreyesus. For the sake of the millions who lost their lives and those who suffer with #LongCOVID, it is "a moral imperative," he continued. In the tweet thread, the WHO director spoke about the beginnings of the deadly pandemic.

He remembered how the WHO issued the highest alert on January 30, 2020, and how the outbreak was classified as a pandemic in March of that same year. The WHO director discussed the long-term effects of deadly COVID in the tweet exchange. Too many lives have been sacrificed in the #COVID19 emergency over the past three years. There are still too many individuals in pain, including those who have #LongCOVID. We won't ever stop calling for fair access to instruments that save lives- he wrote on Sunday. After the US House Committee authorized the declassification of the eagerly anticipated COVID-19 report, the WHO director made the statement.

In an open statement published this past weekend, activists, politicians, and academics urged that the anniversary's emphasis be on preventing a repetition of the unequal Covid vaccine rollout.

The declassification of papers with COVID origins was already accepted by the US Intelligence Committee.

According to the New York Post, on March 7, the US House Intelligence Committee approved a bill that had been cleared by the Senate to declassify the portions of the report that deal with the origin of COVID-19. It may be possible to discover connections between the Chinese facility and the deadly virus's origin through declassification.

The New York Post reports that Avril Haines, the director of national intelligence, has been tasked with disclosing all information related to any possible connections between the lethal virus and the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Bipartisan support for the measure was given by the US Senate and the Intelligence Committee. The US Department of Energy's finding that the virus's spread is probably being caused by a leak from a Chinese facility also prompted the action. The US Federal Bureau of Investigation's position on the virus's genesis was unchanged from the previous year.

A WHO-led team spent weeks in and around Wuhan, China, the location of the first human cases, in 2021. In a joint report, the team stated that more investigation was required but that it was likely that the virus had been transferred from bats to humans through another animal.