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Africa: Covid-19 Origins Report Inconclusive: We Must 'Leave No Stone Unturned' - WHO Chief
UN News, 30 March 2021
The report from a team of international scientists assembled by the World Health Organization (WHO) to examine how COVID-19 first spread to humans was published on Tuesday, and was… Read more »
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WHO, 30 March 2021
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Africa: WHO Calls for Further Studies, Data On Origin of SARS-CoV-2 Virus
WHO, 30 March 2021
The report of the international team on their Wuhan field visit, from 14 January -10 February 2021, was published today as WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called… Read more »
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Africa: Covid-19 'Extremely Unlikely' to Have Come From a Lab - Experts
UN News, 9 February 2021
The virus that causes COVID-19 probably jumped from animals to humans and is “extremely unlikely” to have come from a laboratory, the head of an international team… Read more »
WHO Report on Covid-19 Origins is Out - But More Data is Needed
The report from a team of international scientists assembled by the World Health Organization (WHO) to examine how Covid-19 first spread to humans has been published. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the report was a welcome start, but far from conclusive. "We have not yet found the source of the virus, and we must continue to follow the science and leave no stone unturned as we do," he told a Member State briefing in Geneva.
In January 2021, a 34-member team visited the Chinese city of Wuhan where the first cases of the then new coronavirus came to light at the end of 2019. The health agency chief said that although much data had been provided, to fully understand the earliest cases, they would need access from Chinese authorities "to data including biological samples from at least September" 2019.Tedros welcomed the recommendations for further studies to understand the earliest human cases and clusters, and to trace animals sold at markets in and around Wuhan.
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30 March 2021
WHO-Convened Global Study of Origins of SARS-CoV-2: China Part
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In May 2020, the World Health Assembly requested the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) to continue to work closely with the ... see more »
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"Zoonotic diseases" such as Ebola, SARS, Zika, HIV/AIDS, West Nile fever and COVID-19 are infections that jump between animals and humans, some of which leave illness and death in ... Read more »
This transmission electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 - also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus that causes Covid-19 - isolated from a patient in the U.S. Virus particles are shown emerging from the surface of cells cultured in the lab. The spikes on the outer edge of the virus particles give coronaviruses their name, crown-like.
