Geneva: The World Health Organization said on Friday that the second stage of investigation into the origins of Coronavirus must include further study in China and audit ” Next.
They include “Laboratory Audit and relevant research institutions operating in the initial human case field identified in December 2019”, according to a copy of the opening statement given by WHO.
He also suggested investigators to focus on “research that prioritized geographical territory with indications Early Circulation of SARS COV-2 “.
And he called for more studies on the animal market in and around the city of China Wuhan, where Covid-19 was first detected.
The UN health agency has been under pressure intensifying for new investigations, deeper about origin of Covid-19.
Who only managed to me Send a team of independent international experts to Wuhan in January, more than a year after Covid-19 first appeared there at the end of 2019, to help Chinese partners investigate their origin of pandemics.
The old report was delayed after the first phase of the investigation was published at the end of March, but there was no strong conclusion about how the virus first jumped into humans.
Instead they are ranked several hypotheses according to how much they are likely, it finds that the most likely the virus soars from bats to humans through intermediary animals, while the theory involving the leaky virus from the laboratory is considered “very impossible”.
Investigations and reports faced criticism for lack of transparency and access, and also because it did not evaluate the theory of leak leakers deeper.
Tedro, who always stated that all theories remained on the table, told reporters on Thursday that the encouragement to rule out the possibility of a link to Lab leakage was “early”.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian refused, stood with the conclusion of the first mission that Covid-19 after escaping from the laboratory was “very impossible”, the warning that “this problem should not be politicized.”