A WHO spokesperson said yesterday that a WHO preparatory team has gone to China to conduct an investigation into the origin of the emerging coronavirus, while US immunologist Anthony Fuchi described the coronavirus as "the worst nightmare".
In detail, the World Health Organization said the team would arrive in Beijing this weekend, paving the way for a broader mission aimed at determining how the virus reached the human race.
"They are on their way now," spokeswoman Margaret Harris told reporters in Geneva, noting that there was no specific time frame for their mission.
The new Corona virus has killed at least 550,000 people worldwide and infected more than 12.1 million since it appeared in China last December.
Scientists believe the deadly virus has passed from animals to humans, possibly in a market in Wuhan that sells wild animals.
Chinese officials said in the early stages of the outbreak that the virus may have spread from a market in the city selling live and wild animals, but this has not been confirmed.
The United Nations organization has been pressing China since the beginning of May to invite its experts to help investigate the assets of "Covid-19".
Harris said that the two expert organizers will hold initial meetings with their Chinese counterparts and determine the places the full mission wants to visit. She explained that the duo will determine "what we need to know."
She added that «one of the big issues of concern to all is to consider whether the virus was passed from factions to humans and what are the factions that transmitted from them». "We know that it is very similar to a virus in bats, but has it passed through intermediate factions?" This is a question we all need to answer. ”
US President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the virus may have been synthesized in a laboratory in Wuhan, but they have provided no evidence. China vehemently denies this.
US scientists and intelligence services said the virus originated in nature.
For his part, Anthony Fawcci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the American immunologist, and a White House staff member of the Corona virus, described the pandemic as "the worst nightmare" for health experts because of its easy transmission between humans.
Fauchi, the day before yesterday, in an interview with the media: The ability of infection shown by the virus is "really striking."
Given the sharp rise in the number of new infections in the south and west of the United States, Fucci advised the affected states to stop easing the closures they planned.
Fauchi added that since the height of the pandemic in March, the United States has not succeeded in reducing the number of new infected people daily to 20,000, yet the southern states have eased restrictions imposed on the economy, stressing by saying: "We have to do better than this."
This comes at a time when a statistic told Reuters that the United States recorded at least 60,565 new cases of Coronavirus, the day before yesterday, which is the second day in a row that the infections exceed 60,000.
For the third consecutive day, the number of deaths in the United States jumped by more than 800, the highest level since early June, according to the statistic. Florida recorded a record increase of 120 deaths, and California witnessed 136 new deaths, slightly lower than the previous day's record of 149, according to the statistic.
While California, Florida and Texas recently recorded record numbers of casualties, hopes of reopening the economy were dashed and US stocks fell about 1% at the close as investors feared any new closure would undermine the business sector. The previous record recorded last Wednesday, 60,541 injuries.
The United States has recorded more than 3.1 million infections, and more than 133,000 deaths from the virus so far.
Hong Kong closes all schools after increasing corona cases
The Hong Kong Education Office announced yesterday that it will suspend studies in all schools from Monday after an increase in cases of infection with the Coronavirus, due to local transmission, adding to fears of a renewed spread of the disease in the city.
Most schools in the city have been closed since February, with many students switching to studying online and taking lessons on a television circle, and many international schools are already on summer vacation.
The city recorded 42 new HIV infections, the day before yesterday, 34 of which occurred as a result of local transmission of infection on the second day in a row to increase the number of local infections.
Education Minister Kevin Young said that some of the new cases include students and their parents.
The total number of injuries in the city since the end of January was 1366 and seven people died of the disease. Hong Kong ■ Reuters
Tokyo records a new daily record number of injuries
The Japanese Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) said that Tokyo recorded 240 new cases of the new Corona virus yesterday, the highest number of daily infections recorded, for the second day in a row. The large increase in the number of people infected with the virus in Tokyo last week raised the concern of the population that this city would be forced to re-impose restrictions to limit the spread of the epidemic. And Tokyo had recorded, the day before yesterday, a record number of injuries by 224 cases, the largest number witnessed by the city since the outbreak of the epidemic. The governor of Tokyo, Yoriko Koike, did not address the numbers that were recorded yesterday, but she attributed the recent increase in the number of infections to the increase in examinations of corona detection, in addition to the spread of the virus on a community scale. "We are at a stage that requires more caution," said Yuriko, who easily won a second term in Sunday's elections. Tokyo ■ B.A.
- American scientists and intelligence services said that the virus originated in nature.