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WHO -Chief Tedros says that “all hypotheses must stay on the table” after critical information not provided to investigators.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared efforts to discover the origin of the COVID 19 The pandemic is still underway and incomplete, because critical information has not been “provided”.
The WHO The chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that “all the hypotheses must remain on the table” to determine the cause of the virus, also known as Sars-Cov-2, after a group of experts investigating its origins has reached an unsatisfactory conclusion in its final report published on Friday.
“We continue to call on China and any other country that has information on the origins of COVID-19 to openly share this information, in the interest of protecting the world from future pandemics,” said Tedros.
The world pandemic, which started in 2020, killed millions worldwide, with countries imposing locks in order to stop the propagation of the virus. With the first cases detected in Wuhan, China, at the end of 2019, the country’s information is considered key to preventing future pandemics.
In 2021, Tedros launched the WHO scientific advisory group for the origins of Pathogenic Novel (SAGO), a panel of 27 independent international experts.
Marietjie Ventter, the group’s president, said on Friday that most scientific data support the hypothesis that the new coronavirus had jumped to the humans of the animals.
But she added that after more than three years of work, Sago was unable to obtain the data necessary to assess if COVVID was the result of a laboratory accident, despite repeated requests for detailed information made to the Chinese government.
“Consequently, this hypothesis could not be studied or excluded,” she said, but adding, “it was deemed very speculative, based on political opinions and not supported by science.”
Ventter also said that there was no evidence to prove that Covid had been manipulated in a laboratory, and there was no indication that the virus had spread before December 2019 anywhere outside China.
‘Remains not very conclusive’
In 2021, an WHO expert group went to Wuhan for the first time to examine the origins of the virus with their Chinese counterparts.
In March of the same year, their joint report revealed that the most likely hypothesis came from bats to humans via an intermediate animal.
They said at the time that a laboratory leak was “extremely improbable”.
However, this survey was faced with a counter coupling for the lack of transparency and access, and not to take the theory of laboratory flight seriously.
After that, Sago was launched.
According to the Sagou report, “the weight of the evidence available … suggests that zoonotic (a spread of the disease between animals to humans) spreads … either directly from bats or by an intermediate host”.
“Until more scientific data becomes available, the origins of how SARS-COV-2 has entered into human populations will remain undertaking,” said Venter.
“Understanding the origins of Sars-Cov-2 and how it sparked a pandemic is necessary to help prevent future pandemics, save lives and livelihoods and reduce global suffering,” she added.
Tedros said it was a “moral imperative” to determine how Covid started, noting that the virus killed at least 20 million people, wiped at least 10 TN from the world economy and turned upside the lives of billions.
