GENEVA: Geneva: The World Health Organization has said that China’s Wuhan market has a major role in the spread of corona virus infection. This is very clear. But still many research needs to be done. World Health Organization’s Food Safety Junotic Virus Expert Dr. Peter Ben Ambrek said during a press briefing in Geneva on Friday that Wuhan’s weight market has played a role in spreading the corona, it is clear but what role is more research in this direction Is required.
Chinese authorities shut down the market in January as part of efforts to halt the spread of the virus and ordered a temporary ban on trade and consumption of wildlife.
“The market played a role in the event, that’s clear. But what role we don’t know, whether it was the source or amplifying setting or just a coincidence that some cases were detected in and around that market,” said Dr Peter Ben Embarek, a WHO expert on food safety and zoonotic viruses that cross the species barrier from animals to humans.
It was not clear whether live animals or infected vendors or shoppers may have brought the virus into the market, he told a Geneva news briefing.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said there is “a significant amount of evidence” the virus came from the Wuhan laboratory, although he has also said there wasn’t certainty.
No public evidence has linked the outbreak to the lab in Wuhan and scientists have said the coronavirus appears to have developed in nature. A German intelligence report cast doubts on Pompeo’s allegations, Der Spiegel reported.
