The international expert group of the World Health Organization, which arrived in Wuhan, China, to find out the source of the spread of the coronavirus, intends to publish a preliminary report following the visit. This was announced on Friday, February 12, by the director general of the organization, Tedros Ghebreyesus.
According to him, the document will appear next week. Subsequently, specialists will create a trip report.
“A team of experts is working on a synthesis report, which we hope will be published next week. And the full report will be published in the coming week, ”said Gebreyesus. The event is broadcast in Twitter– WHO account.
He added that the trip to Wuhan will not provide all the answers, but it will bring closer understanding of the origin of COVID-19.
WHO specialists arrived in the Chinese city of Wuhan on 14 January. According to the current rules of the PRC, the experts were in quarantine for two weeks. During this time, they consulted with Chinese video communication specialists.
After going through mandatory quarantine, on January 31, a WHO team studying the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic visited a market in the Chinese city of Wuhan.
On February 7, experts announced the first results of their work, noting that they had found “important clues” on the market that would help in further investigation.
On February 9, an expert of the World Health Organization group from the Russian Federation, deputy director of the Pasteur Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Vladimir Dedkov, told Izvestia that the WHO commission would conduct the second stage of the investigation in Wuhan. He noted that a total of 17 scientists from the commission and 17 specialists from China took part in the work of the WHO commission in China.