Geneva: The World Health Organization proposes a new team to lead an investigation into the origin of Covid-19 and other diseases after the last effort was issued by controversy.
Selected from more than 700 applications, 26 proposed group members have expertise in various fields of epidemiology to biosecurity, WHO said on Wednesday.
They include Marion Koopmans from Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands, Christian Drosten from the Institute of Virology in Charite in Berlin and Yungui who, Deputy Director at the Beijing Genomic Institute.
“Understanding where new pathogens come from important to prevent outbreaks in the future with potential epidemics and pandemics, and need various skills,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote in a statement of a joint whose earlier this year found it Coronavirus might spread From bats to humans through other animals.
Although the team is considered a lab-leak incident that is most unlikely to be hypothesized, the WHO director calls for further research.
US President Joe Biden has criticized China for Stonewall’s efforts to understand the Genesis SARS-COV-2, while China accused the US and its allies to blame it for a pandemic that has killed nearly 5 million people globally.
Tedros said that scientists still lacked raw data on possible infections at the end of 2019.
Who has proposed a laboratory audit and research center in Wuhan, the city where the first case was identified, as well as the study of animals, humans and the environment that might have played a role in The appearance of Coronavirus.
New studies are bound to face new obstacles.
Beijing said he would reject the call to investigate whether the virus leaked from the Institute of Virology Wuhan, high security facilities on the outskirts of the city carrying Coronavirus research.