WHO spokesman: Available evidence suggests the new coronavirus originated in animals
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Last Update: 2020-04-22
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Medicine Network April 22 - A spokesman for the World Health Organization said on the 21st that the current media and social platforms are circulating a number of myths and conspiracy theories about the origin of the new coronavirus WHO believes that, as far as available evidence is available, the virus originated in animals rather than laboratory man-made WHO spokesman Fadla Shaib told a regular press conference at the United Nations Office at Geneva that the organization was currently battling two "pandemics", namely the new corona pandemic and the "false information pandemic." Responding to some recent myths circulating on media and social platforms about the origin of the new coronavirus, she said all known evidence suggested that the new coronavirus originated in animals, not by laboratory intervention or manufacture she said bats are most likely to be the owners of these viruses in nature It is not known how the new coronavirus was transmitted from bat to humans There must be an intermediate host, that is, another animal to transmit the virus from bat to human WHO welcomes the efforts of national researchers to find new sources of coronavirus, which are being carried out by a number of teams, including from China Fadla Shaib stressed that the current common focus should be on facts, not fear Finding the origin and origin of the new coronavirus is critical, and WHO is participating in a number of expert investigations on the basis of science.
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