(ANSA) - GENEVA, MAY 1 - WHO reiterated the natural origin of the coronavirus after United States President Donald Trump raised the thesis that Covid-19 originated in the Wuhan virology laboratory.
When asked by a journalist during a press conference in Geneva, the director of emergencies of the World Health Organization Michael Ryan repeated that "as far as the origin of the virus in Wuhan is concerned, we have listened to many scientists who have studied this virus and we are sure that it is natural origin ". "Our main goal - he continued - is to understand how animal-to-human transmission was possible, or how the barrier between animal and human species was crossed".
WHO, 'the virus is of natural origin'
2020-05-01T18:47:26.223Z
WHO reiterated the natural origins of the coronavirus after U.S. President Donald Trump re-launched the thesis that Covid-19 originated in the Wuhan virology lab. (HANDLE)