India termed the global study on the origin of COVID19 convened by the World Health Organization (WHO) “an important first step” and stressed the need for next phase studies to reach robust conclusions.
The follow up of the WHO report and further studies deserve understanding and cooperation of all, said Ministry of External Affairs (MEA).
According to a report by CNN, the WHO is expected to restudy the “dominant theory” that the SARS-CoV-2 probably originated and spread across the world from China’s Wuhan lab.
The WHO team investigating the origins of coronavirus had visited the Hubei Center for animal disease control and prevention in Wuhan, on February 2, 2021.
Meanwhile, a leading scientist on the WHO’s COVID-19 mission to China recently said that a follow-up trip could be helpful to gather additional research on the origins of the disease.
The comments from Dutch virologist Marion Koopmans came after the United States called on Tuesday for international experts to be allowed to evaluate the source of the coronavirus and the early days of the outbreak in a second phase of the WHO’s investigation into the origins of the coronavirus, reported Reuters.
