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Members of the WHO traceability team visited the Anti-Epidemic Achievement Exhibition.
After completing isolation in Wuhan, the World Health Organization (WHO) New Coronavirus Traceability Team went to two hospitals that received patients in the early stages of the epidemic on Friday and Saturday, respectively, and visited the exhibit. advertisement for Wuhan’s anti-epidemic achievements.
On the afternoon of Friday (January 29), the WHO team went to Hubei Provincial Hospital for Integrated Western and Traditional Chinese Medicine for an inspection, which was their first on-site investigation. On Saturday morning, the team visited Jinyintan Hospital.
Both hospitals were hospitals admitting patients in the early stages of the Wuhan epidemic. Among them, Zhang Jixian, a doctor at Hubei Provincial Hospital for Traditional Chinese and Western Integrated Medicine, was identified by Chinese state media as the first person to report on the new corona epidemic.
On December 26, 2019, while treating the patients of an elderly couple, he found that CT scan results showed that the pneumonia they had was completely different from normal viral lesions, so he subsequently reported it to the CDC. local.
New corona virus: first WHO trip to Wuhan, China to investigate origin
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Members of the WHO traceability team left the Hubei Provincial Hospital for Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine.
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Chinese medical staff of Hubei Provincial Hospital for Traditional Chinese and Western Integrated Medicine
Jinyintan Hospital is the main designated hospital in Wuhan for treating patients with new coronary pneumonia. Huang Chaolin, the vice president of the hospital, and several front-line doctors published an article about the first known confirmed case in Wuhan in the medical journal The Lancet.
The WHO team also visited the anti-epidemic exhibition that was held at the Wuhan Living Room Exhibition Center on Saturday (January 30) afternoon. This exhibition, called “People First, Life First” is an advertising campaign launched by the Hubei provincial government in October last year.
Reuters reported that a WHO spokesperson said on Friday that due to health restrictions, the team’s contact in Wuhan is limited to visits organized by the Chinese host and will not communicate with the local community.
“The team will go out, but they will be transported by bus to all places, so they will not have any contact with the community,” WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris (Margaret Harris) said at a briefing in Geneva on Friday Said . “They will only come into contact with several people who are organized and related to the investigation.”
“Very important first field visit. We are in the hospital where we treat some of the first known cases, and we meet with real doctors and staff who are doing this work to openly discuss the details of their work,” said Peter, a member of the team. of the WHO. · Peter Daszak wrote on Twitter.
The team plans to visit laboratories, markets and hospitals in Wuhan in the remaining two weeks. In late 2019, the new coronavirus was discovered for the first time in Wuhan.
BBC China correspondent Stephen McDonell reported on the ground from Wuhan that because the WHO team’s itinerary was not public, when they left the hotel, a large number of media vehicles attempted to follow their convoy.
“The WHO team can now conduct face-to-face interviews in the field, but their main task is to analyze the work that has been done in China, not to conduct their own research,” McDevin reported.
The media cannot follow the WHO team to the hospital to film.
International experts said that the process of tracing the source of the new coronavirus is very complicated and can take several years to complete.
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The media cannot follow the WHO team to the hospital to film.
Controversy over the origin of the epidemic
China has been promoting the view that the new corona virus existed abroad before Wuhan was discovered. Official media often reported that the virus was found in imported fresh frozen food packaging, or some scientific articles claimed that the virus had spread in Europe in 2019.
China’s Foreign Ministry also hinted that the sudden closure of the US Army laboratory at Fort Detrick, Maryland, in July 2019, was linked to the epidemic.
However, the scientific community believes that the family of viruses closest to the genome sequence of the new coronavirus is still the bat coronavirus in southern China.
According to the Associated Press, the Chinese government also strictly controls the traceability investigation, and the release of data and documents must be approved by the authorities.
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Many countries, led by the United States, have criticized China for its “concealment” and “delay” in handling the early outbreak of COVID-19. Last year, more than 100 countries requested independent investigations into the origin of the epidemic. The WHO-led investigation in Wuhan has experienced multiple delays, during which WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus rarely expressed dissatisfaction with China.
The 13-member WHO team arrived in Wuhan from Singapore by plane on January 14. In the original 15-member team, two members had a negative nucleic acid test while transiting Singapore and a positive serum test for the new corona antibody, so they were unable to board the plane.
The team visiting China this time is made up of scientists from many countries, including epidemiologists and zoologists from the United States, Great Britain, Russia, Vietnam, Qatar and other countries.
“In the early days of the epidemic in China, this was a burden, especially for the people of Wuhan, because everyone called it the Wuhan virus, which is a shame,” a 30-year-old Wuhan citizen with his surname told Reuters. Yang “In my opinion, if the source can be clearly traced, the stigma of China or Wuhan can disappear.”
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