The World Health Organization (WHO) denies the spread of the Covid-19 epidemic starting from a laboratory in Wuhan, China.
A team of WHO experts and a team of researchers from China have so far visited nine locations to study the origins of the Covid-19 virus.
In a press conference in Wuhan city yesterday, WHO said the location of the visit included Jinyintan Hospital, Huanan wet market and the Wuhan Chinese Academy of Sciences virus study center.
According to Bernama, WHO has also held meetings with medical staff, laboratory researchers, management and traders in the wet market as well as staff in the housing community, former patients, family members of the deceased medical staff and locals.
According to the WHO, among the results of the study found to prove bats and ants are a direct source of Covid-19 is not strong enough, although the arrangement of neo-coronavirus genes in both animals is similar to the arrangement of Covid-19 genes.
However, the WHO believes bats, ants, foxes, cats and some other animal species have the potential to be the natural host to the virus.
Meanwhile, environmental tests conducted at the Huanan wet market found that the Covid-19 virus was most commonly detected at seafood stalls.
According to the WHO, the epidemic may have spread through patients, cold chain products that have been contaminated with infections and animal products in the Huanan market, but so far the theory has not been fully proven.
Citing a statement from the group of experts, the spread among humans in the city of Wuhan in December 2019 with most cases occurring in the second half of the month while the Huanan wet market became one of the focal points of epidemic prevention.
However, based on the results of the research, there were positive cases confirmed elsewhere in the city of Wuhan when the case was concentrated in the wet market.
In another development, the group of experts has conducted an assessment of four channels that have the potential in spreading the disease to humans, namely direct infections, cold chain products, natural hoses and laboratories.
