China hides origin of Covid-19: WHO

This Friday, the World Health Organization (WHO) once again issued a call to China to share all scientific information that may be useful in determining the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, after learning that it has genetic and molecular results, in the market animals. it was the first suspicious site to be saved.

Information from the Chinese Center for Disease Prevention and Control (CDC) was uploaded to an open-source science platform in January and discovered by European experts who analyzed it and reported their findings to the WHO, but the data has since been deleted. From him.

The WHO indicated that, as soon as it became aware of this (five days ago), it asked the Chinese authorities to make the information available, which has not yet happened. He clarified that these data do not allow a definitive conclusion about how the pandemic began, but represent “an important part to get closer to the answer.”

Western scientists, who were able to download and work with information from China, presented their findings to a WHO panel of experts involved in establishing the origin of new pathogens, including the cause of Covid-19.

The WHO has asked China to provide data directly to these experts so that they can be analyzed.

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 for China to 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, the virus has not been identified in animals or animal samples on the market, and we have not found any animals that have infected humans,” said Maria Van Herkove, WHO technical manager for the pandemic.

“We have directly asked the CDC of China to provide this information to the international community. Any information that is, any data that exists, whether it is from China or from another country, must be transferred,” 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.

To this end, the WHO has indicated 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 still don’t have, 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 unanswered questions,” Van Herkov said.

EFE

Source: Aristegui Noticias

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