Experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) will travel to China to look for the source of the coronavirus. This was reported by the Associated Press with reference to expedition participant Fabian Lendertz.
Experts are likely to travel to Wuhan, where the virus was first reported, he said. The scientist noted that the WHO mission does not intend to find out who is to blame for the spread of the epidemic. Lendertz stressed that they will try to understand what happened and how this information can be used to prevent a pandemic in the future.
It is noted that scientists will study samples that were collected even before the epidemic to determine if the virus was circulating before it spread across China. Experts will also inspect the seafood market in Wuhan, where the coronavirus may have passed from animal to person.
Earlier, the WHO said that a new strain of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 discovered in the UK, which arose as a result of a mutation, is more infectious. WHO special envoy for the global fight against COVID-19 David Nabarro emphasized that at the same time this strain is most likely not more dangerous than the others, so radical changes in priorities and methods of combating the epidemic are not expected because of it.
