WHO said the latest Chinese information offered some “clues” on Covid-19 origins, but no answers. Read more at straitstimes.com.
saying that until that happened all hypotheses remained on the table, more than three years after the virus first emerged.
“All hypotheses are on the table. That’s WHO’s position and that’s why we have been asking China to be cooperative on this.”The virus was first reported in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019, with many suspecting it spread in a live animal market before fanning out around the world and killing nearly 7 million people.
It included genetic sequences found in more than 1,000 environmental and animal samples taken in January 2020 at the Huanan seafood market in Wuhan, the location of the first known Covid-19 outbreak.- was present in environmental samples that tested positive for Sars-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, suggesting that they were “the most likely conduits” of the disease, according to a team of international researchers.
The database included genetic sequences found in environmental and animal sample at the Huanan seafood market in Wuhan. PHOTO: AFP
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