A team of World Health Organization researchers in China investigating the origins of the coronavirus is telling CNN that they now have months of Chinese flu data that could be -intain vital information about the early spread of the virus.
On Sunday, the team visited the wet market that is thought to have been at the heart of the spread of the disease: the now-cleansed and closed Huanan seafood market in Wuhan city, where doctors identified the first group of pneumonia-like illnesses in mid-December 2019.. The market has become a reported “ground-zero” for Covid-19, even though later studies suggest it may have started elsewhere.
Peter Ben Embarek, WHO team leader and food safety expert, told CNN “Even though the area has been partially disinfected, all the shops are there – and the equipment is there. It will give you a good idea of the condition of the site. market for maintenance, infrastructure, hygiene and the flow of goods and people. ” The team had the opportunity to talk to locals and staff, Ben Embarek said. He warned that it was too early in their investigations to make decisions.
“Obviously something happened in that market,” said Ben Embarek. “But it could also be that other places had the same responsibility, and that one was chosen because some doctors were smart enough to link a few sporadic issues together.”
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