Beijing, China.
The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus probably originated in one exotic animal farm south of China, according to Peter Daszak, president of the EcoHealth Alliance and one of the members of the World Health Organization (WHO) delegation that investigated the origin of thethe pandemic a China at the beginning of the year.
In an interview broadcast on American radio NPR on Tuesday, Daszak said that the team of WHO researchers sent to China, among them himself, they found new tests that the wild animal farms were supplying the Huanan market a Wuhan (Hubei Province).
According to Daszak, the rapid reaction of the Chinese government to close these farms is a shows than the most likely route of coronavirus transmission was from bats to some kind of animal wild bred a captivity in the south of China and thence to humans.
The researcher said that he and other experts from the team WHO who visited China at the beginning of the year they believe that the bat who incubated the first SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus came from the southern province of Yunnan or neighboring Burma.
“I think the SARS-CoV-2 first infect a people south of China. It seems to have been so, “said the expert, who also based his conclusions on the fact that the Chinese government decided to close the important sector of thes farms of exotic animals in Yunnan Province.
“These farms,” Daszak argued, “they take exotic animals such as rabbits, porcupines, pangolins, raccoon bears or bamboo rats to breed in captivity “and have been shut down by order of the Chinese government.
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“China closed them because in February dand 2020 pensaba that is the most possible route (of the contagion in Wuhan, Where the new diseased). And in the WHO report, we also believe that it is lthe most likely way “, Daszak has advanced.
The WHO will present a report in the coming weeks with some of the conclusions drawn by the team experts what is move to Wuhan pnow investigate the source of the pandemic covid19.
This expert, who worked on the research of the origins of the SAR virusS, he noted that now the key will be to determine which animal bridged between the batis and humans and what farm, of the many that were promoted south of China to remove the rural population from lpoverty iIt is the source of the pandemic that has killed more than 2.6 million people. EFE