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- The highly anticipated WHO investigation of the coronavirus’s origin will begin as soon as January 2021.
- An international team of 12-15 experts is expected to go on a six-week mission to China to investigate the origin of COVID-19.
- Planning is underway, and the health experts might depart soon after New Year’s Day.
More than a year will have passed since the first coronavirus case was detected in Wuhan by the time a World Health Organization (WHO) team of experts heads to China to begin a formal investigation into its source the illness in January. We still don't have an explanation for the origins of the coronavirus outbreak that led to one of the worst pandemics in modern history. China has never shared any details about the virus's source other than the Wuhan market, where the virus supposedly jumped to humans from an unknown animal species. China changed that story in late May when it said the virus originated from elsewhere. Since then, we've watched China try to shift the blame on to other countries, from the US to Spain and Italy and then India and Bangladesh.
Health experts need to solve the coronavirus puzzle to better deal with the illness in terms of therapies, public health measures, and protocols to prevent similar outbreaks of pathogens residing in certain animal species in the future. The point is not to blame an entire nation for the health crisis, but China saw plenty of criticism for the lack of transparency in the early days of the Wuhan outbreak and the beginning of what would become a pandemic. Those decisions may have allowed the virus to spread faster and hindered the global response to COVID-19. Recent leaks revealed a dire situation in the early days of the Wuhan epidemic. They also indicated that China has done plenty of investigating of its own without sharing any of its findings with the rest of the world.
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