Six months on from the novel coronavirus outbreak, the WHO said it was sending a team to China to work towards finding the source. | AFP
The organization has been pressing China since early May to invite in its experts to help investigate the animal origins of the coronavirus.
“We will be sending a team next week to China to prepare for that and we hope that that will lead into understanding how the virus started.”Scientists believe the virus jumped from animals to humans, possibly from a market in Wuhan selling exotic animals for meat.“Six months ago, none of us could have imagined how our world — and our lives — would be thrown into turmoil by this new virus,” said Tedros.
Unless international unity replaces fractious division, “the worst is yet to come. I’m sorry to say that,” he said.While the world races to find safe and effective vaccines and therapeutics against COVID-19, Tedros said countries such as South Korea had shown that the virus could be successfully suppressed and controlled without them.
Reflecting on the global death toll and infection numbers, Tedros said: “Still, this could have been prevented through the tools we have at hand.”
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