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VIDEO. Origin of Covid-19: WHO leaves China without certainty

2021-02-09T14:34:37.194Z


One year after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, nothing is still known about the origin of the virus. The WHO investigation in Wuhan, suspected focus of


After a four-week stay in Wuhan (China), the international team of Chinese experts and the World Health Organization, sent there in mid-January, left empty-handed.

During a press conference given on Tuesday, the experts only issued hypotheses and admitted that they had not yet been able to pierce the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic.

If transmission from an animal remains probable, it "has not yet been identified", explains Liang Wannian, head of the delegation of Chinese scientists.

Another hypothesis under study: that of transmission from a first animal, then "from a second before contamination in humans", specifies Peter Ben Embarek, head of the WHO delegation, who also judges the theory of a virus leak from a "highly unlikely" laboratory.

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This mission on the origins of the transmission of the virus to humans, considered extremely important to try to better fight against a possible next epidemic, had difficulty in setting up.

China remains very reluctant to let these global specialists from various disciplines, such as epidemiology but also zoology, come.

The WHO already knew that it would be necessary to be patient before finding a possible answer.

“We are in a long process and we need time and effort to understand what happened,” concludes Dr Hung Nguyen-Viet, another expert in Wuhan.

Since the first cases of Covid-19 in December 2019, the pandemic has killed more than 2.3 million people worldwide.

Source: leparis

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