World Health Organization Chief Emergency Officer Mike Ryan said it would be “highly speculative” for WHO to say that the coronavirus did not originate in China, reports Reuters .
Ryan said that the search for the source of the origin of the coronavirus should in any case begin in Wuhan, where the first cases were recorded. The spokesman also denied information that the virus was introduced to Europe through animals.
Prior to that, Ryan said that the coronavirus could begin to spread around the world after infecting several zero patients. According to him, in the event of a COVID-19 pandemic, we can talk about more than one primary infection, since the transmission of a pathogen to humans is possible from several animals. “There is more and more information that the SARS-CoV-2 virus is found in various countries. It was recently identified in bats, we also saw other potential vectors in different places,” the specialist explained.