This is also indicated by the fact that the virus causing the disease was first identified in the Wuhan meat market.

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It would be highly speculative on the part of the World Health Organization (WHO) to say that the coronavirus did not appear in China last December, Michael Ryan, WHO emergency director, said at a virtual press conference in Geneva on Friday.

A virus called SARS-CoV-2 was first identified in a food market in Wuhan, central China.

China is spreading through state media that the virus was already present abroad before it was discovered in Wuhan. The coronavirus is also reported to have been found in imported frozen food packaging and was circulating in Europe last year, according to scientific journals.

“From a public health perspective, it is clear that the investigation must begin where the first human infections were found,” said the emergency director, adding that the evidence could lead to other places later.

Michael Ryan reiterated that he wants to send WHO experts to the Wuhan market to prove the origin of the virus.

The administration of US President Donald Trump has accused the WHO of skewing in favor of China, which the organization has repeatedly rejected. WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Gebreesus also said that the investigation into the origins of the coronavirus would begin in Wuhan, after which they could continue elsewhere.

Vaccinations

Even if there is a decrease in the number of people infected with the coronavirus in some countries, surveillance must continue, warned Maria van Kerkhove, an expert in epidemiology at the WHO, in Geneva on Friday. “We don’t want the virus to be controlled after quarantine and then quarantined again,” an expert from the UN Specialized Health Organization said at an online press conference.

The WHO needs clinical data and information on proper manufacturing to be able to evaluate Russia’s vaccination against the Sputnik V coronavirus, said Mariangela Simao, WHO deputy director-general, in Geneva on Friday.

A spokesman for the Russian Ministry of Health announced in November that the efficacy of the Sputnik V vaccine was over 90 percent, but it was based on data on vaccinating volunteers rather than on ongoing clinical trials. Kate O’Brien, head of the WHO Immunization Vaccines Division, stressed that the UN

Press releases alone are not enough to assess the effectiveness of coronavirus vaccines and immune responses to them.

British pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca is expected to conduct further tests to assess the effectiveness of its lower-dose vaccine, the company director said on Thursday. Citing studies by WHO experts, he noted that 60 to 70 percent of the population needs to be vaccinated to prevent the virus from spreading. However, O’Brien stressed that in the current pandemic, they will only see what percentage of vaccines will be needed if they know more about the vaccines tested thus far.

In recent days, AstraZeneca, Moderna and Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech have announced that they have tested their vaccine against Covid-19 with promising results.

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