▲ WHO'Corona 19 Origin Investigation Team' visited Wuhan, China in February


Earlier this year, members of the WHO investigating team who traced the origins of Corona 19 in Wuhan, China, said they should begin a Phase 2 investigation before the evidence disappears.



The recent recurrence of the Wuhan laboratory leak is a matter to be confirmed separately from the Phase 2 investigation, insisting that the US Biden administration should share the information with the WHO.



According to the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), international experts who participated in the WHO's field investigation in China from January to February made this position through a podcast on the 26th local time.



"We are in danger of missing out on an opportunity for real work that must be done," said Marion Coffman, a renowned Dutch virologist and appealed to member states to support Phase 2 investigation.



Danish epidemiologist Thea Fischer was also concerned that "it's all stopped now" and "it doesn't seem like much time."



The heart of the second-stage investigation is antibody testing on blood samples stored in blood banks in China, including Wuhan.



In this regard, Fisher stressed that Chinese blood samples will be disposed of in two years.



The investigative team said many of the WHO member states have agreed to the Phase 2 investigation, but the decision has yet to be made at the annual meeting of the World Health Assembly (WHA), WHO's highest decision-making body.



At the General Assembly, which opened on the 24th, the European Union has called for an in-depth investigation of all major hypotheses, including laboratory leaks.



China, on the other hand, insisted that domestic research on the origins of Corona 19 has ended and that the focus of the investigation should now be shifted to other countries.



However, members of the investigation team did not appear to put much weight on the suspicion of a leak from the Wuhan Virus Research Institute that the Biden administration reignited.



In a small podcast by Peter Darth, "the evidence is political, not scientific," he said, "not a reasonable basis for starting a massive audit."



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