A scientist who led the Chinese World Health Organization team to investigate the origins of the coronavirus said the WHO would leave behind the theory that the pandemic originated in a laboratory in Wuhan when the health agency of the United Nations issue a report in the coming weeks.
Liang Wannian, who led the Chinese side of the WHO-China joint team, said experts reached a consensus on the beginnings of the new coronavirus.
Although there are still many unanswered questions about the disease, Liang said the first case was registered on December 8, 2019 and that the Huanan food market played an important role in allowing its spread, but the experts agree that the virus is “of natural origin”.
“The most likely transmission route was from the natural host to the intermediate host and then to the humans,” he told the Chinese Communist Party-controlled Global Times in an interview published Wednesday.
“The outbreak is extremely unlikely to be caused by a lab leak,” the team said.
Liang said there will be no future exams “focused on this area unless there is new evidence.”
He said experts from ten countries visited hospitals, the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the Huanan Seafood Market, and spoke with medical and laboratory staff, scientific researchers, managers, community workers, people who recovered from illness and family members of health care. vendors who died fighting the pandemic.