The data that WHO has on the origin of the choir …

A researcher at the World Health Organization (WHO) gave clues about what would be the origin of the coronavirus. According to Peter Daszak, president of the EcoHealth Alliance and one of the members of the WHO delegation that visited China earlier this year to determine how the pandemic started, covid-19 is believed to originate from an exotic animal farm in the south of the Asian country. From the international organization, they announced that the mission’s final report will be published between this week and next.

In an interview broadcast Tuesday by US public radio NPR, Daszak said he and his colleagues found new evidence that wildlife farms were supplying the Huanan Market in Wuhan, Hubei Province, where the first cases were detected.

According to Daszak, the rapid reaction of the Chinese government to close these farms is a sign that the most likely route of coronavirus transmission was from bats to a certain type of captive-bred wild animal in southern China and from there to humans.

“I think SARS-CoV-2 infected the first people in southern China. It appears to be the case.”, Held. The researcher said he and other experts from the WHO team who visited China earlier this year believes the bat that hatched the first SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus was from southern Yunnan province (although they don’t rule out that it is from neighboring Burma), where Chinese authorities first shut down exotic animal farms.

Daszak argued that these farms “take exotic animals such as genets, porcupines, pangolins, raccoons or bamboo rats to breed in captivity” and that the Chinese government closed them last year because “he believed that it was the most possible route (of contagion in Wuhan). And in the WHO report, we also think that it is the most likely route. “

The WHO delegation arrived in China in early January this year and worked in collaboration with local scientists. In this way, the experts were able to determine that the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan was larger than what was initially said. These days, the final report of the investigation is expected, although the release has suffered delays.

On March 5, WHO director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the report would be released the week of March 15 and promised to give the scoop to member states “before publication”.

Yet WHO spokesperson Christian Lindmeier told a press conference in Geneva that “The report is not ready” and that a draft document will not be released as planned. “What we are told by the members of the mission is that the report will probably be released next week“, he concluded.