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One of the researchers is the Danish Thea Fischer. She tells the Reuters news agency that the group will be traveling on a six-week mission. The trip includes two weeks in quarantine upon arrival in China.
China’s reluctance
So far, Chinese authorities have stopped all attempts to enter China to investigate the corona outbreak.
Until now, Chinese President Xi Jinping has opposed international investigators in the country. But after the New Year, ten researchers will travel there, according to WHO, China has given the green light.
Photo: Ju Peng / AP
The need for researchers to find the cause of the coronary eruption has generated tensions, writes the BBC.
Relations between China and the United States in particular have been strained due to the crown outbreak.
President Donald Trump has repeatedly accused the Chinese authorities of deliberately trying to hide the virus outbreak.
The United States has also accused the World Health Organization of being too lenient with China.
The United States and Australia have joined several countries in demanding an independent investigation into the origin of the virus in China.
– Do not hunt scapegoats
The group of international researchers says the main goal is not to find a scapegoat. The mission is to find the origin of the virus to prevent future outbreaks.
– It is not to blame a country, says Fabian Leendertz.
He is a biologist at the German Robert Koch Institute.
A woman shows a sign with the inscription Welcome to Wuhan. So far, Chinese authorities have denied entry of international investigators to the city. But after the New Year it happens.
Photo: Héctor Retamal / AFP
– It is trying to understand what has happened and reduce the chances of it happening again, says the German biologist.
Leendertz says researchers want to know when the virus broke out and whether the virus originated in the city of Wuhan. The client is the World Health Organization (WHO).
Bats in Wuhan
The virus has long been believed to have broken out when it spread from animals to humans at an open-air market in Wuhan.
But it is possible that the virus did not emerge, but was amplified in this market, writes the BBC.
Research may indicate that the virus with the potential to infect humans may have existed in bats for many years.
Keith Hamilton of the WHO told the Associated Press that a corona-like virus has been detected in so-called horseshoe bats in China.
Indicates that the virus was in an animal before it was transmitted to humans.
“It is difficult to investigate the virus in an animal,” says Hamilton.
– It’s like looking for a needle in a haystack, continue.
WHO animal disease expert Peter Ben Embarek said in November that they wanted to interview Chinese working in the Wuhan market, where the virus was in an early stage. The goal is to find out how the first people who got sick got infected.
“There is no evidence that the virus is man-made,” Embarek said, according to the BBC.
The doctor who alerted
Chinese doctor Li Wenliang has been described by many as a whistleblower who was not heard by the Chinese authorities. It is said that he tried to warn at the beginning of the virus outbreak that the patients infected each other and developed a lung disease previously unknown.
Dr. Li Wenlinag tried to report the virus. He must have objected. He died of covid-19 on February 7.
Photo: Li Wenliang / AFP
In response to this, he is said to have been summoned to security authorities.
It is said that he was forced to sign that he should stop spreading rumors. Otherwise, he would be punished, according to documents the BBC has examined.
The New York Times also interviewed the doctor before he himself died of Covid-19 disease.
“I felt that they treated me badly, but I had to accept it,” he told WeChat to the newspaper about the situation with the security authorities.
