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Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – The World Health Organization (WHO) still cannot find the origin of the corona (Covid-19). Although experts have been dispatched to the city of Wuhan in China until the beginning of last week, there is no definitive answer as to what caused the pandemic that has killed two million people in the world.
Chinese health authorities have repeatedly said that Covid-19, which first broke out in the capital, Hubei, likely originated abroad. Beijing says imported pork heads and seafood are to blame.
Some researchers and global health authorities have questioned frozen food as a route of transmission of the virus. However, to guarantee its argument, China suspended product imports and launched the inspection, testing and disinfection of packaging and packaging entering China.
Launch South China morning post, a Chinese scientist called the Sars-CoV-2 virus that makes Covid-19 reach the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan City through frozen food imports he called “I transmitted cold chainThe Huanan market is believed to be the “initial hotbed” of the crown’s spread in the capital of east China’s province.
The theory was even presented at a press conference in Wuhan earlier this week. “Sars-CoV-2 can withstand the conditions found in frozen food, packaging and cold chain products,” said Liang Wannian, a National Health Commission official who leads the mission on the Chinese side. , cited by CNBC Indonesia).
Liang also said that the virus may have caused infections abroad before the outbreak in Wuhan. But they have not been identified.
In fact, Beijing has repeatedly emphasized to the international community that the crown did not originate in China. Xi Jinping’s government says the fact that the virus was first detected in Wuhan does not mean that the city is immediately where it emerged.
Meanwhile, Daniel Lucey, an infectious disease specialist at Georgetown University Medical Center in the United States, said transmission Cold chain doesn’t seem like a possible explanation. According to him, it should require a comparative study.
“Why Wuhan first? Of all the seafood markets in China and Asia and around the world, how did the cold food chain end up causing the first outbreak in Wuhan?”
Still, Dale Fisher, an infectious disease physician at the National University of Singapore (NUS) said the Chinese theory might actually be considered. He thought it very sensible for the WHO team to consider this theory.
“(However), a theory cold chain transmission in fact, he came up with the idea that “there is an epidemic in meat processing plants in other countries.” But it is highly unlikely that any widespread illness had occurred before Wuhan, “he explained.
Previously, the WHO team in Wuhan passed on the general hypothesis that corona was transmitted to humans through intermediate animals. However, more research on the potential role of the product Cold chain not done.
Bats are often blamed for the spread of the crown. But at a press conference last week, the WHO said the crown could have been from many other animals, including rabbits.
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