Beijing, China.
The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus probably originated in one exotic animal farm in the South of China, according to Peter Daszak, Chairman of the EcoHealth Alliance and one of the members of the World Health Organization (WHO) delegation that explores the origins of la pandemic in China at the beginning of the year.
In an interview broadcast by American radio NPR on Tuesday, Daszak assured the team of WHO researchers Send to China, among themselves, they found new tests that the farms with wild animals they provided the mercado de Huanan in Wuhan (provincia de Hubei).
According to Daszak, the quick response of the Chinese government to close those farms is one shows that’s the most likely way of doing that coronavirus transmission it was from bats some kind of animal wild bred in captivity andn South China and from there to people
The researcher said he and other experts on it WHO who has visited China at the beginning of the year they believe that bat that the first SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus came out came from the southern province Yunnan or neighboring Burma.
“I think SARS-CoV-2 at first infected people in the south of China. It seems that was the case, ” said this expert who also bases his conclusions on the fact that the Chinese government decided tos farms from exotic animals in Yunnan province.
“Those farms”, said Daszak, ‘they take exotic animals such as genets, porcupines, pangolins, raccoons or bamboo rats to reproduce in captivity ‘and are closed by order of the Chinese government.
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“China closed them because in February de 2020 pI thought this was the most possible way (from contamination in Wuhan, value new diseased). And in the WHO report, we also believe it is lthe most likely way “Daszak came forward.
The WHO will be presenting a report in the coming weeks outlining some of the research team’s conclusions. experts Which moved Wuhan pTo the origins of the pandemic of the COVID-19.
This expert, who participated in the investigation of origin of the SAR virusYes, he pointed out that the key now will be to determine which animal bridged it bats and people and what farm, of the many promoted in the south China to remove the rural population from thepoverty, ands the origins of the pandemic that claimed the lives of more than 2.6 million people. EFE