The process of identifying the sources of the COVID-19 pandemic caused by Coronavirus SARS-COV-2, stopped, expressed experts of the World Health Organization in the article for the Nature magazine.
“We were chosen by members of the independent international joint team WHO and China – with the task of understanding the origin of the SARS-COV-2 virus. Our report was published in this March. He had to become the first step in the process that stalled,” said Specialists, their words leads Interfax.
“The investigation of the sources of SARS-COV-2 is in the decisive point … which is especially important: the window of opportunity is rapidly closed in terms of biological, extremely important opportunities to track people and animals (with the necessary samples) in China and for its limits, “specialists indicated.
According to them, the data collected during work in the Chinese city of Wuhan, which is considered the first famous pandemic epicenter, do not confirm that the COVID-19 pandemic has become the result of leakage from the laboratory. Instead of working on this version, experts called on to look for the earliest cases of COVID-19 – in China and outside it – with research on the presence of antibodies and testing early reports of the disease – until December 2019. WHO also consider it necessary to check farms where wild animals are contained, and study bats. However, the importance of the time factor was emphasized in this context.
“Antibodies against SARS-COV-2 decrease with time, so the further collection of samples and testing people who could contact (with the virus) until December 2019 will bring more and fewer results,” – warned in WHO.
also they suggested that many farms with wild animals, which could be interesting to investigate, could already close, and animals – to kill.