Remember: on January 14, after some administrative and political adventures, a delegation from the World Health Organization (WHO) went to China with the aim of precisely identifying the origin of the SARS coronavirus. -CoV-2. This Monday, March 29, 2021, our colleagues from Agence France Presse (AFP) revealed the main conclusions of this explosive report.
Where does the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus come from? First, unsurprisingly, after 4 weeks of investigation in China, scientists (from 10 countries and in collaboration with their Chinese counterparts) have estimated that the transmission of the coronavirus to humans via an intermediate animal is a hypothesis “likely to very likely“, while the leak of the virus from a laboratory remains”extremely unlikely“.
In detail: experts confirm that the source of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is “probably” the bat. The virus would have passed from this animal host to humans via a “intermediate“still unknown – scientists cite a list of potential culprits, from house cats to rabbits, civets to pangolins, visions, badgers-ferrets and raccoon dogs. straight from the bat to the human remains”possible to likely“.
SARS-CoV-2, transmitted to humans by bats (perhaps through an intermediary)
Other “possibility” (and this is the thesis supported by Beijing): transmission to humans via frozen meat. The report therefore recommends continuing investigations on the basis of these three hypotheses: the idea that the virus would have “escaped” from a laboratory has been completely ruled out.
What about the Huanan market in Wuhan, the supposed “starting point” of the Covid-19 epidemic? Arrived on the spot more than a year after the start of the epidemic, the WHO researchers did not manage to find “evidence of the presence of infected animals“…
Was the WHO survey conducted freely? Not sure, according to some specialists: in February 2021, Ned Price, the spokesperson for the American State Department, thus affirmed that “at least so far the Chinese have clearly not shown the transparency we need [pour cette enquête]”.
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