LONDON (AP) – An expert group accused by the World Health Organization to investigate how Covid-19 PandeMic She started her final launch a report Friday, with an unpopular conclusion: scientists are still not sure of the worst health emergency in a century.
At a press conference on Friday, Maritji Fair, the group’s chair, said that most of the scientific data supports the hypothesis that the new Corona virus jumped to humans of animals.
It was too conclusion It was drawn by the first group of experts from the World Health Organization that was achieved in the origins of the epidemic in 2021, when scientists concluded that the virus is likely to spread from bats to humans, through another broker. At that time, who said the laboratory leakage was “very unlikely.”
Fitr said that after more than three years of work, the expert team was unable to obtain the data needed to assess whether Covid-19 was the result of A. Laboratory accidentDespite the repeated requests for hundreds of genetic sequences and the most detailed biological information that was presented to the Chinese government.
“Therefore, this hypothesis cannot be investigated or excluded,” she said. “He was considered very speculative, based on political opinions and not supported by science.” She said that the 27 -member group did not reach consensus; A member resigned earlier this week and asked three others to remove their names from the report.
Fenter said there is no evidence that Covid-19 had been manipulated in a laboratory, and there was no indication that the virus was spreading before December 2019 outside China.
“Until more scientific data is available, the origins of how to enter SARS-COV-2 will remain the human population uninterrupted,” Finter said, in reference to the scientific name of the Covid-19.
The general manager Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said it is a “ethical necessity” to determine how Covid started, noting that the virus was killed at least at least at least 20 million peopleAt least 10 trillion dollars in the global economy and raising the lives of billions have been eliminated.
Last year, and I found AP The Chinese government has frozen local and international efforts to track the origins of the virus in the first weeks of the outbreak in 2020, which may have missed early opportunities to investigate how Covid-19 started.
we President Donald Trump Blame the Corona virus appearing in a laboratory accident in China, while a American intelligence analysis I found that there was not enough evidence to prove the theory.
Chinese officials It has repeatedly refused the idea that the epidemic could have started a laboratory, saying that the search for its origins should be conducted in other countries.
Last September, the researchers spread them on a A short list of animals They believe that Covid-19 may spread to humans, including Raccon dogs, Civet Cats and Bamboo Rats.
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