Scientists of O BSH will go to Wuhan to investigate the origin of COVID-19

The international mission is expected to go to China in the first week of January to investigate the origin of the virus that caused the coronary pandemic, O spokesman confirmed. BSH Hedin Halldorsson, writes Daily Mail.

Coronervirus ' pandemic has caused over 1.6 million deaths and infected over 73 million worldwide, but its origin remains a mystery.

China reported its first cases on December 31st of last year and closed a market believed to have erupted the new Coronavirus.

Health ministers called on O The BSH in May to identify the source of the virus and the way it passed the species barrier, and the UN health agency sent a preliminary team to Beijing in July to lay the groundwork for international investigation.

But so far it remains unclear that when a broader team of scientists will be able to travel to China for epidemiological studies, to try to identify the first human cases and the source of infection.

Now a team of 12-15 international experts are preparing to go to Wuhan to examine the evidence, including human and animal samples collected by Chinese researchers, and to support their initial studies.

Thea Fischer, a Danish member, said the team would leave immediately after the New Year for a six-week mission, including two weeks of quarantine after arrival.

The United States, which has accused China of hiding the spread of the explosion, has called for a transparent investigation led by O BSH and criticised its conditions, which allowed Chinese scientists to take the first phase of preliminary research

“Faza 1 was supposed to end by now, in reference terms, and we should have some results. If this is what we get when we come to China... that would be great. Then we are already in phase 2,”, Fischer told Reuters.

Keith Hamilton, an expert at the World Animal Health Organisation (OIE) that will participate, told the media yesterday that the show will start very soon. )

O spokesman BSH's Tarik Jasarevic said in an electronic response to Reuters that the international team was working for logistical arrangements to travel to China as soon as possible.

“We hope the team will be able to travel in January,” he said.

Chinese state media have suggested that the virus existed abroad before it was discovered in Wuhan, citing its presence in packaged imported frozen food and scientific documents, claiming it was circulated in Europe last year

Peter Ben Embarek, O expert BSH on animal diseases, said last month that the mission would like to interview market workers about how they were infected with the virus. He said there is no evidence that the virus would be created by man.

Scientists initially believed that the killer virus was transported from animals to humans to a market that sold exotic animal meat in the city of Wuhan, where the virus was first discovered at the end of last year. But experts now think the market may not have been the origin of the explosion.

It's supposed to be the virus first came from bats, but the middle ambush of animals that broadcast it between bats and humans remains unknown.