Covid-19 Originated Elsewhere, Not Wuhan, Says WHO Expert

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A Russian expert on Saturday said Wuhan’s Huanan seafood market may have made it possible for the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) to spread, but it does not mean the virus originated there.

Sputnik reported that Vladimir Dedkov, a member of the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) expert team said: “There is no evidence that the virus originated there’’ but hypothetically, there are all conditions for the spread of the virus there.”

The seafood market was linked to an early cluster of COVID-19 cases, but scientists are yet to come to an unequivocal conclusion regarding the role it played in the contagion.

Dedkov also refuted the theory of a virus leakage while visiting the Wuhan Institute of Virology along with nine other WHO experts on Wednesday.

“Of course, it was important for our mission to visit this facility, talk to our colleagues and see how everything is organised there,’’ the expert said.

“The laboratory is perfectly equipped.

“It is hard for me to imagine that something could have leaked from there,’’ he added.

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