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The report of the investigation into the origins of the Covid the week of March 15

2021-03-05T14:13:57.745Z


The World Health Organization (WHO) team of experts dispatched to Wuhan, China in January to investigate the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic will release their report the week of March 15, the report said. WHO boss. Read also: Covid-19: the animal causing the virus "not yet identified", according to the WHO team dispatched to Wuhan " The team is working on the final report as well as on a summa


The World Health Organization (WHO) team of experts dispatched to Wuhan, China in January to investigate the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic will release their report the week of March 15, the report said. WHO boss.

Read also: Covid-19: the animal causing the virus "not yet identified", according to the WHO team dispatched to Wuhan

"

The team is working on the final report as well as on a summary, which we understand will be published simultaneously during the week of March 15,

" Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Friday, March 5, according to remarks made Thursday to delegates from the member countries.

"

I know that many member countries are eager to see the report

" and "

me too of course

", added the director general of the WHO.

He promised to give the first to member states "

before it is published

" and to share the findings with them.

Initially, the WHO had said that the expert team would quickly issue a preliminary report before the final report.

This draft preliminary document was finally abandoned in February, but without any real explanation.

During a long press conference in Wuhan at the end of their mission, the experts exposed the different working hypotheses on how the virus that causes Covid-19 passed from animal to human.

They had seemed to rule out the hypothesis that the virus could have escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, as Donald Trump's administration claimed, deeming it highly unlikely.

But the director general of the WHO had shortly after rectified the situation by affirming that "

all the assumptions remain on the table

" to explain the origin of the pandemic.

An about-face that had sown some confusion and added to the skepticism displayed towards the mission by many countries, starting with the United States.

At a press conference Thursday, US diplomacy spokesman Ned Price called for Beijing to show "

transparency

."

"

What we have been clearly indicating for several weeks is that we have deep concerns about how the first results of the Covid-19 investigation team were communicated and questions about the underlying process to achieve these results,

”he said.

In an open letter made public Thursday, 24 international researchers called for a new, independent and more in-depth investigation, denouncing "

structural limitations

" imposed on the work of WHO experts at the time of their visit to China.

Source: lefigaro

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