An expert organization established by the World Health Organization to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic and prepare a framework for investigating long-term outbreaks has released its first report.
The group, established in October, includes 26 experts from around the world and is called the Scientific Advisory Panel on the Origins of New Pathogens (SAGO).
His paintings follow an earlier WHO-China report on COVID-19 and a US intelligence investigation. In the U. S. , any of which pointed to a plant origin of the pandemic, probably bats, than a laboratory leak.
BATS
The new report indicates that a zoonotic origin is the maximum likely explanation for the emergence of the new coronavirus. The first human cases were reported in December 2019 in the city of Wuhan in central China.
However, it indicates that neither the original animal source, the intermediate host, nor the time when the virus passed to humans has been identified.
LACK OF EVIDENCE
This is basically because a lot of knowledge is lacking, according to the report, especially from China.
Chinese scientists learn more, adding blood samples from 40,000 Chinese donors in Wuhan from September to December 2019 when the pandemic appeared.
Of these, more than two hundred samples first tested positive for Sars-CoV-2 antibodies, the virus to blame for COVID-19, but confirmatory tests were negative, Chinese scientists said.
WHO asked for more data on this and elements.
LABORATORY LEAK
The panel also said no additional data had been provided on whether the coronavirus may have reached humans just because of a lab incident, meaning more knowledge and research remain important.
FUTURE WORK
He called for several studies to be conducted in China and around the world to shed light on the origins of the pandemic.
These come with more studies of early human cases in China, as well as efforts to determine whether the virus was circulating in China, and elsewhere, before the first cases were discovered.
More paintings about potential animal hosts, i. e. bats, as well as about agricultural staff and animal products that were in the Wuhan market, known from the outset as a possible overflow site, are also essential, the WHO said.
PICTURE
The WHO says the main goals of the SAGO organization are to expand a framework to better investigate long-term outbreaks.
The report includes a list of work that needs to be done urgently to achieve this, preferably in cooperation with the country where an outbreak begins and WHO teams.
Mandatory studies come with “early research” paintings on things like modes of transmission and the extent of human-to-human transmission, SAGO said, as well as studies on early instances and their history and exposure to animals.
He said there are also plans for visits and “systematic recording of site information[s] from the first instances detected,” as well as early collection of samples from animals, humans and the environment in general.
He will continue to meet to talk about advances in this topic and will also talk about paintings to identify the origins of some of the Sars-CoV-2 variants, as well as the spread of known pathogens, such as the recent monkeypox outbreak.
The specialized organization also works more on biosecurity and biocustody.