WHO links emergence of COVID-19 in China to animal trafficking

The agency said that a report should be published this week, in the preparation of which they participated

WHO experts who previously visited Wuhan. 

The report, notes Bloomberg, willThere is a version according to which the new coronavirus may be similar in origin to the virus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Its original carriers were bats, and it passed to people through small mammals—the Himalayan civets.

British zoologist Peter Daszak was among the scientists who visited Wuhan. The path that SARS took, according to him, was also possible for SARS-CoV-2. 

Scientists also doubt the artificial origin of the virus, they do not support the version about the appearance of COVID-19 due to a leak from the laboratory.

However, these results will not be final, experts will conduct additional checks, including outside China, in order to establish the pathways of the spread of the coronavirus.

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