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30.04.2021 / 12:12

Covid-19 origin: WHO should look beyond animal sources, say scientists

coronavirus probably spread from bats to humans via another animal, and considered a laboratory incident the least likely hypothesis. Because the study’s aim was defined as probing the zoonotic source of the virus, other theories didn’t receive the same attention and the team didn’t fully investigate labs, Peter Ben Embarek, co-leader of the trip, said after a report was published in March.WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said afterward that the probe didn’t adequately analyze the possibility of a lab accident before deciding it’s most likely the pathogen spread from bats to humans via another animal.

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WHO team urges patience after 1st look for origin of virus

GENEVA – An international team behind a long-awaited study of the possible origins of COVID-19 with Chinese colleagues on Tuesday called it a “first start,” while the United States and allies expressed concerns about the findings and China trumpeted its cooperation.

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Virus study to have unanimity despite pressure, WHO expert says

GENEVA – The head of a World Health Organization team working with Chinese colleagues to finish a long-awaited report into the origins of the coronavirus acknowledged its authors could face “pressures” but insisted the final product will have a unanimous green light from all of the team’s science-minded members.

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WHO scientists discover 13 Covid strains active in China back in December 2019

World Health Organization (WHO) have found evidence of a wider Covid outbreak in China in 2019, reports claim.Experts have detected that there were 13 variants in the epicentre Wuhan by December, meaning the virus was more wide-ranging than originally thought.WHO lead investigator Peter Ben Embarek told CNN that his team was able to use partial genetic samples and identify coronavirus cases in December 2019.He said: "The virus was circulating widely in Wuhan in December, which is a new finding."Chinese scientists sent the team 174 cases, of which 100 were confirmed by the WHO team in lab testing and the rest were diagnosed by patient symptoms.The Danish scientist said it is possible there were far more cases, suggested around 1,000 people

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WHO team finds possible signs of wider COVID outbreak in Wuhan on Dec 20: Report

Washington: Investigators from the World Health Organisation (WHO) looking into the origins of coronavirus in China have discovered that signs of the outbreak were much wider in Wuhan in December 2018 than previously thought, CNN reported.The investigators are urgently seeking access to hundreds and thousands of blood samples from the city that China has not so far let them examine.The lead investigator for the WHO mission, Peter Ben Embarek, told CNN in a wide-ranging interview that the mission had found several signs of the more wide-ranging 2019 spread, including establishing for the first time there were over a dozen strains of the virus in Wuhan already in December.The team, which arrived in China in January and spent four weeks

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Covid virus could have come through frozen food, unlikely from lab: WHO

Inside the Mindtree makeover strategy“Frozen animal products, mainly seafood, were sold at Huanan Market, along with products made from wild and farmed animals, some of which came from other parts of China or were imported.

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Explainer: WHO's theories about the origins of Covid-19 after Wuhan probe

World Health Organization (WHO) completed its 28-day mission to the Chinese city of Wuhan this week seeking clues about the origins of COVID-19.The following looks at their findings.What are the main scenarios?Peter Ben Embarek, the WHO's leading animal disease expert, said the team conducted scientific investigations into four main scenarios about how SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, spread into humans.In the first, a single person was exposed to SARS-CoV-2 through direct contact with the host species, the horseshoe bat.

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How Covid may have originated at China's Wuhan

World Health Organization-led team probing the origins of COVID-19 said bats remain a likely source and that transmission of the virus via frozen food is a possibility that warrants further investigation, but he ruled out a lab leak.Peter Ben Embarek, who led the team of independent experts in its nearly month-long visit to the Chinese city of Wuhan, where the outbreak first emerged at a seafood market in late 2019, said the team's work had uncovered new information but had not dramatically changed their picture of the outbreak.Also Read | Inside the third front of the farm agitation"The possible path from whatever original animal species all the way through to the Huanan market could have taken a very long and convoluted path involving

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WHO team says coronavirus unlikely to have leaked from China lab

WUHAN, China - The coronavirus most likely first appeared in humans after jumping from an animal, a team of international and Chinese scientists looking for the origins of COVID-19 said Tuesday, dismissing as unlikely an alternate theory that the virus leaked from a Chinese lab.A closely watched visit by World Health Organization experts to Wuhan — the Chinese city where the first coronavirus cases were discovered — did not dramatically change the current understanding of the early days of the pandemic, said Peter Ben Embarek, the leader of the WHO mission.But it did "add details to that story," he said at a news conference as the group wrapped up a nearly four-week visit to the city.And it allowed the joint Chinese-WHO team to rule out one

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09.02.2021 / 15:24

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Conspiracy crushed as Covid-19 virus 'extremely unlikely' to be from laboratory incident, WHO finds

direct to your inboxThe virus which causes Covid-19 is “extremely unlikely” to have entered the human population as a result of a laboratory-related incident, global health leaders have said.Sars-CoV-2 “may have originated from zoonotic transmission”, a team of experts from China and the World Health Organisation (WHO) concluded.This means it leapt from animal host to human.But the “reservoir hosts” remain to be identified, they told a press conference.Some conspiracy theorists have falsely claimed that the virus escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan, China.

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World Health Organization says coronavirus unlikely to have leaked from Chinese lab

A police officer wearing protective mask and suit is on duty during disinfection work at Huanan Wholesale Seafood Market on March 4, 2020 in Wuhan, China.

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WHO says coronavirus unlikely to have leaked from China lab

WUHAN – The coronavirus is unlikely to have leaked from a Chinese lab and is more likely to have jumped to humans from an animal, a World Health Organization expert said Tuesday.

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WHO team says lab virus leak theory 'extremely unlikely'

Experts from the World Health Organization have all but eliminated a controversial theory that Covid-19 came from a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan.

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WHO says Covid may not have started at Wuhan wet market as it reveals probe findings

Covid-19 may not have originated in a wet market in Wuhan - but was not the result of a 'lab leak', experts have said.

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Live animal markets shouldn’t be closed despite COVID, says WHO

LONDON — The World Health Organization said Friday that although a market in the Chinese city of Wuhan selling live animals likely played a significant role in the emergence of the new coronavirus, it does not recommend that such markets be shut down globally.

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Coronavirus came from bats, can infect cats, ferrets: WHO

A World Health Organization scientist said Covid-19 comes from bats and can infect cats and ferrets, but more research is needed into the suspected animal link to the disease.

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