London:
The origin of the novel coronavirus is nevertheless unclear and the theory that it was brought on by a laboratory leak requires to be taken seriously till there is a rigorous information-led investigation that proves it incorrect, a group of major scientists stated.
COVID-19, which emerged in China in late 2019, has killed 3.34 million people today, expense the world trillions of dollars in lost earnings and upended standard life for billions of people today.
“More investigation is still needed to determine the origin of the pandemic,” stated the 18 scientists, which includes Ravindra Gupta, a clinical microbiologist at the University of Cambridge, and Jesse Bloom, who research the evolution of viruses at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
“Theories of accidental release from a lab and zoonotic spillover both remain viable,” the scientists which includes David Relman, professor of microbiology at Stanford, stated in a letter to the journal Science.
The authors of the letter stated the World Health Organization’s investigation into the origins of the virus had not made a “balanced consideration” of the theory that it could have come from a laboratory incident.
In its final report, written jointly with Chinese scientists, a WHO-led group that spent 4 weeks in and about Wuhan in January and February stated the virus had in all probability been transmitted from bats to humans via a different animal, and that a lab leak was “extremely unlikely” as a bring about.
But there are myriad diverse suggestions about the origin of the virus which includes a series of conspiracy theories.
“We must take hypotheses about both natural and laboratory spillovers seriously until we have sufficient data,” the scientists stated, adding that an intellectually rigorous and dispassionate investigation necessary to take location.
“In this time of unfortunate anti-Asian sentiment in some countries, we note that at the beginning of the pandemic, it was Chinese doctors, scientists, journalists, and citizens who shared with the world crucial information about the spread of the virus-often at great personal cost.”
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