This Friday, the World Health Organization (WHO) once again issued a call to China to share all scientific information useful in determining the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic after learning it has genetic and molecular results on file in the market. animals. this was the first place that was suspected.
This is reported by the Center for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC). Chinawas uploaded to an open access scientific platform and discovered by European experts who analyzed it and reported their findings WHObut all this data has since been removed from the platform.
WHO He indicated that as soon as he learned about this, he asked the Chinese authorities to make the information available, which has not yet happened, adding that these data do not allow a definitive conclusion on how the pandemic began, but they form “an important part to get closer to the answer “.
Western scientists who knew how to download and work with information from China presented their findings to a panel of experts from WHO dedicated to establishing the origin of new pathogens, including the causes COVID-19.
WHO asked China present the data directly to these experts so that it can be analyzed more broadly.
Wuhan market signs
The organization’s CEO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said at a virtual press conference that “this information could and should have been shared three years ago” and reiterated his request China act transparently.
So far, the circumstantial information the organization has received is consistent with genetic and molecular testing of samples collected from a food and animal market in Wuhan in January 2020 that tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
However, no virus has been detected in animals or animal samples on the market, and we have not found animals that have infected humans, ”said the technical head of the pandemic in WHOMaria Van Herkova.
“We have directly approached the CDC for China make this information available to the international community. Any information that is, any data that exists, China or from another country, it must be general,” he insisted.
The epidemiologist stressed that there are different hypotheses about the origin of the coronavirus, which has caused almost seven million deaths, of which 5 thousand in the last week alone.
For this WHO pointed to China that more research is needed to trace the animal that may have acted as an intermediary and infect humans, the virus leak from the lab, and the animal’s origin in the Wuhan market.
“That part of the information that we don’t have yet, like where the animals came from, what farm. We also ask for serological tests from people who worked in the market or on the farms where the animals came from. , but these are all unanswerable questions,” Van Herkov said. (As reported by EFE)
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