The World Health Organization (WHO) has published a Scientific Advisory Panel on Dangerous Emerging Pathogens (SAGO) statementHe drew attention to the need to continue researching the theory of the COVID-19 leak.
The scientists explained that current epidemiological data, as well as sequencing data (a set of methods by which the nucleotide sequence in a DNA molecule is determined), show a zoonotic origin of the ancestral strains of the infection and the most closely genetically related viruses, betacoronaviruses. found in horseshoe bats in 2013 in China and in Laos in 2020.
It is emphasized that neither the ancestor of the virus, nor its natural or intermediate hosts, nor the cases of transmission of such a virus to humans have been detected at this time.
In the text of the report, “SAGO notes that no new evidence has emerged to consider the laboratory leak as a route of transmission of SARS-CoV-2 to the human population and recommends further investigation of this and all other possible options.”
Formerly The Washington Post knowledgeableHe said that scientists plan to conduct a detailed study of the causes of coronavirus and possible outbreaks in the future.