A scientist who led the Chinese World Health Organization team to investigate the origin of the coronavirus said the WHO would bring up the theory that the pandemic originated in a laboratory in Wuhan when the United Nations health agency’s health agency will release a report on it in the coming weeks.
Liang Wannian, who led the Chinese part of the joint WTO-China team, said the experts had reached consensus on the launch of the new coronavirus.
Although many questions about the disease have not yet been answered, Liang said that the earliest case was recorded on December 8, 2019, and that the Huanan food market played a role in causing it to spread, but experts agree that the virus is of ‘natural origin’. . ”
“The most likely transmission route 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.
“The outbreak is highly unlikely to have been caused by a laboratory leak,” the team said.
No future exams will ‘be focused on this area unless there is new evidence’, Liang said.
He said experts from ten countries visited hospitals, the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the Huanan Seafood Market, and talked to medical and laboratory staff, scientific researchers, managers, community workers, people recovering from the disease and health care family members. suppliers who died from the pandemic.