Former head of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), George Gao, said on Friday (14/4), that there is still no evidence of which animal the coronavirus may have come from. Gao was the head of the health agency when the first case of Covid-19 was reported in the city of Wuhan in late 2019.
“Even now, people think that some animals are hosts or reservoirs. Long story short, there is no evidence about which animals the virus came from”, he said during a congress, in London, on preparedness strategies to face future pandemics.
No answers
More than three years after the emergence of the first cases of Covid, the origin of the pandemic remains unanswered. Although the Chinese government says it has contributed to the investigations, international health authorities remain critical of barriers imposed on the release of data.
The technical director of the World Health Organization (WHO), Maria Van Kerkhove, said at a press conference held on April 6 that all hypotheses for the origins of the coronavirus remain on the table and did not rule out the possibility that the virus would have spread. spread from a high security laboratory for the study of pathogens.
The WHO representative asked scientists to share all known information so that the origin of the pandemic can be found, which will contribute to the creation of prevention strategies for future pandemics. (With information from Archyde.com agency)
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