In the face of public pressure and calls to restart the international investigation into the origin of the new coronavirus, the WHO has changed its plans for the release of the report following the investigation by its expert team to Wuhan, China, the Wall Street Journal reported on March 4.
WHO Director-General Tan Desai had promised on Feb. 12 that the WHO expert panel would release a summary conclusion within the next week after concluding the Wuhan investigation, and that the full investigation report would be officially released within a few weeks. But as of now, not only has the summative conclusion of the above-mentioned expert group not been released, but the head of the WHO Wuhan traceability expert group, Peter Ben Embarek, has even announced that the expert group plans to release the relevant summary together with the final full version of the report, which will take a few more weeks.
According to reports, 26 renowned experts from Australia, France, the United States, Spain and other countries signed an open letter on Thursday, requesting the re-launch of the international investigation into the origin of the new coronavirus. The letter makes clear that the WHO panel’s trip to Wuhan to trace the origin of the virus, which ended last month, did not provide sufficient opportunity to fully investigate the origin of the virus, including whether it was a laboratory leak.
The U.S. government has also previously called on China to make public all data studies related to the new coronavirus, including the first confirmed case of infection in 2019, and will conduct a more detailed audit check after the WHO panel formally releases its investigation report on the origin of the Wuhan virus.
Embarek said the definition of the relevant summary does not include all the details, and given the concerns about this report, one summary does not satisfy all readers.
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