The World Health Organization (WHO) arrives at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China (Image: HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP/Getty Images)
[See China June 11, 2022 News]On the 9th,WHO(WHO) forCOVID-19The International Scientific Advisory Group on the Origins of New Pathogens (SAGO), the origin of the reorganization, released its first investigation report, which claimed that existing data showed that COVID-19 originated fromanimalbut still can’t draw a conclusion on the mode of transmission, and most of the reasons are the lack ofChinaaspect data.But it is worth noting that the WHO once claimed after the first wave of investigations early last year that the virus has beenlaboratoryWai Yiyi said “extremely unlikely”, but this time the position has been completely reversed, and it is necessary to investigate this possibility. However, the Chinese side angrily denounced “lies”.
Lack“Critical data” does not rule out virus leakage from the laboratory
In October last year, the World Health Organization recruited a total of 27 experts from the United States and China, and the re-formed COVID-19 epidemic tracing team reported for the first time on the 9th that the virus may have been transmitted by bats carrying the original ancestor of the virus. to mammals in the live poultry market, and thus to spread outward, and this conclusion is similar to the findings of the WHO survey last year. Although Chinese scientists have shared information twice, including unpublished research, the lack of “key data”, especially the first batch of case data in December 2019, still cannot be sure of the way the virus spreads to humans.
The SAGO team emphasized that although there is no new information pointing the source of the epidemic to escape from the laboratory, it is still necessary to investigate due to similar situations in the past. Such a statement is very different from the first report of the old team early last year. At that time, there were 4 possibilities for the source of the epidemic, and the laboratory escape was rated as “extremely unlikely”, so it was criticized by the outside world for prematurely jumping to conclusions. . According to The New York Times, Chinese, Russian and Brazilian members of SAGO are still boycotting the investigation.
“Reuters” pointed out that WHO Secretary-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus sent two letters to China in February, requesting detailed information on the earliest cases in Wuhan. The lack of data from China in each survey has highlighted the urgent need to overhaul the WHO and its health emergency procedures. Meng Tianxing, an expert on the WHO Advisory Group on Other Issues, suggested that the Group of Seven (G7) should set up its own investigation team. The U.S. House of Representatives’ COVID-19 Origins Investigation Committee tweeted that the U.S. side was smeared as a conspiracy theory just by questioning whether the virus came from a laboratory. Now the WHO has also raised the same question, “We need answers.”
US deputy national security adviser: laboratory escape is the most credible origin
Matthew Pottinger, a former deputy national security adviser to the Trump administration, has said that the most credible theory for the origin of COVID-19 is that the virus escaped from a Chinese laboratory.
Bo Ming said that the latest information points to the virus escaped from the highly confidential Wuhan virus research. There is more and more concrete evidence that the laboratory may be the most credible source of the virus, and the Wuhan Institute of Virology is far away from the source of the epidemic that is currently considered by the outside world. The South China Market in Wuhan is only about 18 kilometers away.
Po Ming also said that the virus may have escaped from the laboratory because of “leakage or accident”, and even people in Beijing’s system have publicly refuted the theory that the virus came from the traditional market.
Po Ming is fluent in Chinese and used to be a reporter for Reuters and The Wall Street Journal. He was stationed in China for seven years. In 2005, Bo Ming became a member of the U.S. Marine Corps and served as a military intelligence officer; in 2017, he transferred to the National Security Council of the United States and served as director of Asian affairs; and then served as the deputy national security adviser to the White House.
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