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The World Health Organisation team that had visited Wuhan labs in China to find out the origin of covid-19 has failed to uncover the origin of coronavirus from Wuhan in China.
Scientists who visited China said the coronavirus is unlikely to have been leaked from a Chinese lab. More likely it might have originated in bats and the virus could have been transmitted to humans from another mammal. The theory has changed the way world was looking at China.
Former US president Donald trump had went to even call it a Chinese virus and blamed even WHO for giving incorrect information to the world on its spread. Also reports on new virus coming up from China came to fore recently.
WHO foreign expert Peter Ben Embarek made the assessment at the end of a visit to the Chinese city of Wuhan where a team of scientists is investigating the origins of the coronavirus. The first cases were discovered in the city in December 2019 after which it gradually spread across the world.
Embarek mentioned, “the absence of bats in the Wuhan area dimmed the likelihood of direct transmission of the virus to humans.” It was most likely to have come from an intermediary species, he said.
He backed up China’s position that there was no evidence of large outbreaks of the coronavirus in Wuhan before December 2019. Liang Wannian, head of the China side of the joint mission, said animal transmission remained the likely route, but the reservoir hosts remain to be identified. The laboratory incident hypothesis is extremely unlikely, he said.
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The WHO experts spent a month in China including two weeks in quarantine to probe the origin of the coronavirus.
Liang said studies showed the virus could be carried long-distance on cold chain products, appearing to nudge towards the possible importation of the virus a theory that has abounded in China in recent months.
