Lam, an expert in dengue and nipah, is appointed member of the Covid-19 working group

PETALING JAYA: Malaysian virologist Dr. Lam Sai Kit has been appointed a member of an international task force to investigate the origin of the Covid-19 pandemic and identify strategies to prevent pandemics.

Lam, a research consultant at the Universiti Malaya and a senior fellow at the Malaysian Academy of Sciences, is an internationally recognized dengue expert and was involved in the discovery of the Nipah virus in 1998.

He said the task force had been given 12 months to conduct a rigorous review of all available information on the origins and early control of the pandemic, and to identify strategies for pandemic prevention.

The 12-member task force is led by Dr. Peter Daszak, a disease ecologist who spent years studying coronavirus transmission in China and Southeast Asia.

The task force is part of a Covid-19 commission created by the Lancet, a weekly medical journal. It will investigate the origins and early spread of Covid-19, Daszak said in a statement.

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