It is likely that the virus will be transmitted to humans via an intermediate animal

"World Health" excludes the hypothesis that a "Corona" leakage from a laboratory

During the press conference at the conclusion of the WHO mission to Wuhan.

Reuters

The head of the World Health Organization mission to Wuhan, Peter Ben Embark, announced that the hypothesis of the leakage of the new Corona virus (Covid-19) from a laboratory is "extremely excluded", explaining that the most likely hypothesis is that the Corona virus was transmitted to humans through an intermediate animal.

He added during a press conference after the end of the mission's mission in Wuhan, central China, in which the virus was announced for the first time, that the investigation revealed new information, but it did not significantly change the already existing perceptions of the outbreak.

And the administration of former US President Donald Trump accused the Virology Laboratory in Wuhan of being behind the accidental or deliberate leakage of the virus.

The head of the WHO mission said that the work to determine the origin of the Corona virus indicates natural stocks of the virus in bats, but it is unlikely that it will be in Wuhan, the city in central China, where the outbreak was detected in late 2019.

He added that the transmission of the new Corona virus from one animal to another, and from it to a person, is “the most likely hypothesis,” indicating at the same time that this hypothesis requires more specific research.

For his part, an expert at the National Health Commission in China said yesterday that the new Corona virus may have spread to other regions before it was detected in Wuhan, adding during a briefing at the conclusion of the UN team’s visit to Wuhan, that the virus was not spreading significantly in the city before late 2019. .

In addition, French President Emmanuel Macron criticized what he called "the nationalization of vaccines", and said that vaccinations should be provided in poor countries, after a telephone conversation with the head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

Macron was talking about the initiative to accelerate the availability of tools to combat "Covid-19", which is a program run by the World Health Organization to develop, produce and distribute "Covid-19" tests, drugs and vaccines, according to the French presidency.

A statement by the "Elysee" said that Macron will discuss the matter with the organizations participating in the project next Friday.

British Cabinet Affairs Minister Michael Gove accused the European Union of threatening peace in Northern Ireland, after the European Union tried to impose controls on the export of new coronavirus vaccines to the territory of the United Kingdom, according to what Bloomberg News reported.

Goff said that the EU owes member states to provide greater clarification of why it has tried for a short period to invoke Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol, a move that threatened to return inspections at the borders of the island of Ireland, before the EU backs down from this measure within hours.

"Article 16 is not in place to guarantee the possibility of saving the vaccine purchase program in the European Union, and this is completely inappropriate," Goff told a committee of British MPs.

Goff expressed concern that the European Union would resort to Article 16 in the future, and called for a reset of the European Union's relationship with Britain.

He continued, "There must be a realization on all sides that this is not an ambiguous part of diplomatic procedures ... This has real consequences on the ground."

And unlike the rest of Britain, Northern Ireland effectively remained in the European Union's customs union and the single market, after Brexit, a concession by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson to the union to secure an orderly departure from Britain.

On the other hand, Chinese President Xi Jinping said yesterday that his country is ready to cooperate on the Coronavirus vaccine with the countries of Central and Eastern Europe.

And the new China News Agency (Xinhua) quoted Xi as saying at the summit of China and Central and Eastern European countries, which was held by video, that Serbia has so far received one million doses of the vaccine produced by a Chinese company, and there is continuous cooperation between Hungary and Chinese vaccine companies.

He added that China will actively study such cooperation with other Central and Eastern European countries if there is a need for it.

Chinese expert: The virus may have been spreading to other regions before Wuhan.

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