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(Seoul = News 1) Reporter Park Byung-jin |
2021-01-31 14:57 sent
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Wuhan Huanan Fish Market © AFP=News1 |
The World Health Organization (WHO) investigation team, who visited Wuhan, China, which is believed to be the first outbreak, to investigate the origin of the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19), is scheduled to visit the angry fish market where the first mass infection occurred, Reuters reported. .
It has been about 13 months since the market closed on January 1 of last year.
The angry market is where most of the confirmed cases occurred in the early days of the corona 19 crisis, and the WHO has pointed it as the source of the outbreak.
However, recently, Chinese experts and state-run media have argued that the virus entered China in the process of importing foreign frozen foods, saying that there is no evidence that Corona 19 originated in an angry market.
China’s state-run Global Times reported that it would be difficult for the WHO investigation team to find evidence of the outbreak of Corona 19 in Wuhan, citing experts.
The WHO investigation team, consisting of 13 multinational experts, arrived in Wuhan on the 14th, and after 14 days of quarantine, began a full-scale investigation on the 29th, and visited two medical facilities including Wuhan Jinintan Hospital the previous day.
Earlier, the WHO has been pursuing an investigation into Wuhan, China, where the first corona19 confirmed cases were found since May last year.
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