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The WHO chief on Tuesday called for a new investigation into the possibility of a possible leak of the SARS-CoV-2 virus from a Chinese laboratory to explain the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic and criticized the insufficient data provided by the Chinese side in The report. This winter’s international expert mission, reports France Presse, quoted by Agerpres.
WHO experts, dispatched between January 14 and February 9 to China, where the first cases of the disease appeared in December 2019, previously estimated that the hypothesis of a laboratory leak is the least likely.
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But “this requires more research, probably in new missions with specialized experts, which I am ready to carry out,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press conference with WTO Health member countries on the report officially released on Tuesday.
He also stressed that international experts “reported difficulties in accessing raw data” during his mission in China. Rare public criticism of the way Beijing handled this joint investigation, comments AFP.
According to the report, of which AFP obtained a copy on Monday, its authors consider the transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus to humans by an intermediate animal as “probable to very probable.” Instead of, hypothesis of a laboratory incident it is described as “extremely unlikely”.
Publisher: Liviu Cojan
