Available evidence suggests that the new coronavirus originated in animals
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Last Update: 2021-02-28
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world health organization spokesman said on the 21st, the current media and social platforms are circulating some of the origin of the new coronavirus fallacy and conspiracy theories. WHO believes that, based on available evidence, the virus originated in animals rather than in laboratories.WHO spokesman Fadra Shaib told a regular press conference at the United Nations Office at Geneva that the organization is currently struggling with two "pandemics", the New Crown Pandemic and the False Information Pandemic. Responding to some recent myths circulating in the media and social platforms about the origin of the new coronavirus, she said all known evidence suggested that the new coronavirus originated in animals and was not artificially interfered with or manufactured by laboratories.For now, she says, bats are most likely to be the natural hosts of such viruses. It is not known how the new coronavirus is transmitted from bats to humans. There must be an intermediate host, that is, another animal transmitting the virus from bat to humans. WHO welcomes the efforts of national researchers to find new sources of coronavirus, which is currently being carried out by a number of teams, including from China.
, stressed that the common focus of the parties should be facts, not fear. Finding the origin and source of the new coronavirus is critical, and WHO is scientifically based and involved in a number of experts' research on the issue.
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