Beijing, China.
The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus probably originated in a exotic animal farm in the south China, according to Peter Daszak, President of the EcoHealth Alliance and one of the members of the World Health Organization (WHO) delegation that investigated the origin ofa pandemic in the China at the beginning of the year.
In an interview broadcast on Tuesday by the American radio NPR, Daszak assured that the team of WHO researchers Send to China, among themselves, they found new tests that wildlife farms supplied Huanan market in the Wuhan (Hubei Province).
According to Daszak, the quick reaction of The Chinese government closing those farms is a Events that most likely way coronavirus transmission it was of bats a kind of animal grown wild in the captivity andin southern China and from there to people.
The researcher said that he and other experts in WHO visited China at the beginning I think knock on who incubated the first SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus came from the southern province of Yunnan or neighboring Burma.
“I think SARS-CoV-2 first infective people from the south China. Apparently that was the case, “said the expert, who also bases his findings on the fact that the Chinese government has decided to close the important sector of theagricultural holdings of exotic animals in Yunnan Province.
“Those farms,” Daszak argued, “they take it exotic animals genes, porcupines, pangolins, raccoons or bamboo rats for breeding in captivity “and were closed by order The Chinese government.
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“China closed them because in February dand 2020 pI thought it was the most possible way (of contagion in Wuhan, where new diseased). And in the WHO report, we also believe that it is lmost likely “Daszak advances.
WHO will present a report in the coming weeks with some of the findings of the research team. expert That displaced Wuhan pTo investigate the origin of the pandemic in covid19.
This expert, who worked on the investigation the origins of the SAR virusYes, he pointed out that the key now will be to determine which animal made the connection knock ons and people and what a farm, among the many that have been promoted in the south China to get the rural population out ofpoverty ands the origin of the pandemic that killed more than 2.6 million people. EFE