WHO Director General Tan Desai said on June 29 that he will send an expert team to China next week to prepare for the traceability of the new coronavirus, which has aroused widespread concern in the international media. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said in response to related questions yesterday that virus tracing is a scientific issue, and China continues to support scientists from all over the world in conducting global scientific research on the source and spread of viruses. Zeng Guang, the former chief scientist of epidemiology at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, told the Global Times reporter on June 30 that he does not yet know the specific itinerary of the WHO expert group to China, but the virus tracing work should be negotiated with China. Related arrangements. Wang Guangfa, director of the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine at Peking University First Hospital, said that China is only a part of the spread of the new coronavirus. How the virus spreads from nature to human society is a very complex issue. WHO should also go to the world at the same time. Other countries carry out traceability work.
When a reporter asked whether WHO’s work on the traceability of the new coronavirus has begun, Tan Desai said, “It is very important to understand the source of the virus. This is a scientific and public health issue.” “If you can learn all the information about the new coronavirus, We can fight the virus better. We will send a team to China next week to prepare for this.” Tan Desai did not specify the composition or specific tasks of the WHO team.
Regarding WHO’s plan, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian responded at a regular press conference on the 30th. He said: “China has always believed that the traceability of the new coronavirus is a scientific issue, and scientists and medical experts should carry out relevant research. Since the outbreak, China and WHO have maintained communication and cooperation on virus traceability issues, and Chinese scientists have also worked with International counterparts are conducting scientific exchanges. China continues to support scientists from all over the world to carry out global scientific research on the source and spread of viruses.”
In an interview with the Global Times on the same day, Wang Guangfa said that China has maintained a transparent, open and cooperative attitude from the beginning of the epidemic to the present. The WHO expert team coming to China next week will also explore and trace the virus from China from a scientific perspective. Of the situation. China is only one part of the process of virus transmission. How the virus spreads from nature to human society is a very complicated question. WHO should also go to other countries in the world for traceability work, such as Spain. Spain recently broke out that the new coronavirus was detected in the wastewater collected in March 2019. This is an important discovery, indicating that the virus may have existed before the outbreak in Wuhan. Wang Guangfa expressed the hope that scientists can find evidence of the origin of the virus and speak with facts.
