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Chinese authorities “US also need to be investigated by WHO expert team”
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A team of experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) visiting Wuhan, China to find the origin of the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19), visits the Wuhan Virus Research Institute on the 3rd.
According to the state-run Global Times, a team of WHO experts led by Peter Ben Embarek will visit the Wuhan Virus Research Institute, which was designated as the origin of Corona 19, and meet Dr. Jeong-ri Su, a representative scholar of the institute called’Bat Woman’. The WHO team of experts will share the results of their research with Chinese scholars along with the activity to find the origin of the virus during this visit to Wuhan.
The WHO team of experts previously visited the Animal Disease Center and met key personnel in Hubei Province livestock surveillance. They arrived in Wuhan on the 14th of last month, quarantined for 14 days, and are actively investigating for two weeks. So far, the team of experts has visited Wuhan Regional Hospital on the 29th of last month, Jinintan Hospital specializing in respiratory tract in Wuhan on the 30th, Huanan Seafood Market on the 31st, Wuhan Disease Prevention and Control Center on February 1, and the Animal Disease Center on February 2.
With a team of experts at WHO covering about half of the schedule, Chinese authorities insisted that the United States should also be investigated by WHO. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Won-bin said at a regular briefing on the 2nd, “The problem of finding the origin of Corona 19 is a very complex and scientific problem.” “There are studies and media reports that Corona 19 occurred in the second half of 2019,” said Wang said. “The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also wrote a research report in December 2019 that found Corona 19 antibodies in blood samples from blood donors.” Emphasized. He continued, “This means that Corona 19 had already occurred in the United States at the time,” and urged the United States to invite a team of experts from WHO to cooperate in investigation and research on the origin of Corona 19.
/ Reporter Park Ye-na [email protected]
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