WHO requests cooperation from China for Covid-19 investigation
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was emphatic in stating about the need to investigate the causes that gave rise to the Covid-19 pandemic
The director of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, believes that China should cooperate more in the investigation into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic, the first cases of which were detected in December 2019 in Wuhan.
These statements were made by the WHO representative at a press conference in Geneva, where he stated: “We hope there will be better cooperation so that we know what really happened.“
Additionally, Ghebreyesus also referred to the conclusions of an investigation being carried out jointly by Chinese scientists and members of the WHO that indicated that there was little probability of the leakage of the coronavirus.
For the WHO representative, it would be essential to share all the data that make up the study and analyze it to determine what really happened. “The first problem is to share the raw data and I said from the conclusions of the first phase of the investigation that this problem had to be solved; and, the second, is that there was a premature attempt to reduce the number of hypotheses such as that of the laboratory in transmission to humans”, Tedros indicated.
According to the conclusions of this joint investigation, a leak of the new coronavirus was “very unlikely, although the thesis of transmission from an animal to a person through an intermediate animal, not yet identified, prevailed.”
M. Rodríguez
Source: eluniversal.com
