The World Health Organization (WHO) has debated the theory that imported foodstuffs would disrupt the initial broth of SARS-CoV-2 in Wuhan during December 2019, as well as suggest Chinese authorities.
“The idea of importing the virus to China in our food congestions is not something that we analyze”, has the most important value of the youth and the delegate of Ginebra (Switzerland) Peter Ben Embarek, specialist in Food Safety and Animal Welfare of the WHO and president of the Wuhan Investigation Team.
According to the expert, the research team is central to its searches now that “the local trade in pomegranates, pomegranate saliva animals, which are produced, particularly in the south of China”, could introduce the virus into Wuhan’s market. “This is a very different discussion in comparison with international trade”, he said.
In the press conference from Wuhan last week, Liang Wannian, head of the panel of experts COVID-19 of the Chinese Ministry of Health, suggested the possibility that current products will act as surface for transmission of the virus and human population or transmission via relationships with food.
Wannian recorded that he had analyzed in the last months a 11,000 sample of animal sanctuaries from 31 Chinese provinces and in all cases the result of the COVID-19 test was negative. The Chinese expert made this argument to suggest that the virus could be imported into China from other parts of the world, a heck that Embarek tampoco described completely in its comparison.
“We are working on the hypothesis that powder may have been introduced by an infected person and that it may extend to other people in the market. However, it may also be traced to the introduction of a product. Among the most interesting products are the saliva animals. “It’s known that some of these species are susceptible to this type of virus,” said Embarek.
The Director General of the OMS, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, also attended last week, in a posterior post to the press conference of Wuhan, which “all the hypotheses are open” about the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 throughout China. “He planted some questions about himself and described some hypotheses. He talked to some members of the team, who confirmed that all the hypotheses are open and require more analysis and study,” he said.