WHO says coronavirus unlikely to have originated from China Labs

WHO says coronavirus didn't originate in China Labs

World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday affirmed that coronavirus didn't leak from labs in China rather it communicated from animals to humans. WHO Officials visited China last month to find the origin of coronavirus to inspect and assess the rate of spread.

WHO food safety and animal diseases expert Peter Ben Embarek asserted this fact at the end of his visit to the central city of Wuhan which was the epicenter and speculated origin of coronavirus where teams of scientists have inspected the origins of virus. The site has witnessed repeated eruptions in covid cases. The first covid case was found in the city of Wuhan in December 2019. Extensive virus samples were collected by Wuhan Institute of Virology which was later accused of leaking the virus into the surrounding community. China denied such possibility and stood firm on the view that the virus has originated elsewhere. The team is considering numerous theories to trace the human contact with the virus.

"The initial findings suggest that the virus has been carried to humans by intermediary host species which requires targeted research and study before confirmation," Embarek said. "The laboratory leakage hypothesis isn't solidifying the introduction of the virus into the human population," he said. Embarek also outlined the possibility of transmission through trade of frozen products. In addition to the Institute,  WHO team of 10 experts from various nations investigated hospitals, research institutes, traditional markets tied to the outbreak etc. The WHO team took months to negotiate for entry in China after massive international pressure at the World Health Assembly last May. Beijing constantly denied the team's insistence on independent investigation.

Chinese authorities have kept a strict hold of possible causes of the pandemic which has now infected more than 105 million people and raised the death toll to 2.2 million people. It's been over a year since the world is ravaging the battle against COVID 19 pandemic. However, the rollout of vaccines by various organisations has lowered the risk and spread of infection to great extent and the world is slowly and steadily resuming back to normalcy.