(ANSA) - BEIJING, 14 JAN - Understanding the origin of Covid-19 is a scientific task and the WHO team of experts, for this purpose, must carry out similar missions in other countries as well as in Wuhan, which will arrive tomorrow directly from Singapore .
This is the position of the Chinese National Health Commission, which emerged in a press conference, according to the Global Times report.
The tabloid of the People's Daily, the 'voice' of the Chinese Communist Party, has been pointing out for months and weeks that several countries, including the US, Italy and France, ascertained the presence of the virus before December 2019, when it was made official in Wuhan.
The deputy director of the Centers for Disease Control, FengZijian, instead said, on the same occasion, that he had no answers on what could be the intermediate host of the coronavirus or on how the virus passed from animals to humans, assuring that Chinese experts will work closely. with the WHO team to trace the source.
The 10 WHO experts will work with Chinese scientists to investigate the source of Covid-19.
The international team will be quarantined in Wuhan, the capital of the province of Hubei and the outbreak of the epidemic that has turned into a pandemic, where they will connect on video with their Chinese counterparts to coordinate the work.
"China has called for collective research by the international community on this virus. When the WHO team reaches Wuhan, Chinese experts will work closely with them to do their work," Feng said.
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