A scientist who led China’s World Health Organization team in investigating the origins of the coronavirus said WHO will suspend the theory that the pandemic originated in a Wuhan laboratory when the United Nations Health Service announced in the coming weeks. issues a report.
Liang Wannian, who led the Chinese part of the joint WHO-China team, said the experts reached consensus on the onset of the new coronavirus.
While many questions about the disease remain unanswered, Liang said the earliest case was recorded on December 8, 2019, and that the Huanan food market played a role in its spread, but the experts agree that the virus is from ‘natural origin ‘is. . “
“The most likely route of transmission was from the natural host to the intermediate host and then to humans,” he told the Chinese Communist Party-controlled Global Times in an interview published Wednesday.
“It is extremely unlikely that the outbreak was caused by a lab leak,” the team said.
No future studies “will focus on this area unless there is new evidence,” Liang said.
He said the experts from 10 countries visited hospitals, the Wuhan Institute of Virology and Huanan Fish Market, and spoke with medical and laboratory personnel, scientific researchers, managers, community workers, people recovering from the disease, and health care family members. providers who died fighting the pandemic.