NEW DELHI:
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced the launch of the Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel thogens (Sag at a news briefing on Wednesday, and Michael Ryan, executive director of WHO's health emergencies programme, said this represented the “last chance to determine the origins of SarsCOV-2.
Responding to WHO's announcement, China warned against any “political manipulation of the renewed probe into the origins of Covid-19.
India has consistently backed all moves by WHO to establish the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, which first emerged in Wuhan, China, and called on all stakeholders, including China, to cooperate with such efforts.
External affairs ministry spokesperson Arindam Bagchi reiterated this position when he was asked about the new expert group at a regular news briefing on Thursday.
“Let me just reiterate what we have stated till now - we have our interest in further studies and data on this issue of the origin [of the coronavirus] and the need for understanding and cooperation by all concerned, he said, without naming China.
The pandemic's biggest mystery
Scientists are not yet sure of how the Sars-Cov-2 came to infect the first human
WHO INITIAL PROBE
In Feb 2021, after conducting part of their study, the WHO stated that the likely origin of Covid-19 was a zoonotic event - the virus was circulating in bats and, perhaps through another animal carrier, spilled on to humans. In March 2021, the WHO published a written renert saying:
1 Direct zoonotic transmission to humans (spillover), assessed as possible to likely
2 Introduction through intermediate host followed by a spillover, assessed as likely to very likely
3 Introduction through the cold chain, assessed as possible
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