WHO’s a team of scientists to visit Wuhan in Jan to investigate the origin of Covid-19

World Health Organization (WHO) announced that a team of 10 international researchers will go to the Chinese city of Wuhan in Jan to investigate the sources of Covid-19. 

A scholar in the team that will be going to Wuhan told the AP news that the WHO was not looking to allocate blame, but instead to forestall future pandemic outbreaks. 

"It's truly not about finding a country's fault," Fabian Leendertz of Germany's Robert Koch Institute stated. 

"It's about trying to comprehend what occurred and afterward check whether, in light of this information, we can attempt to lessen the danger, later on, Leendertz added." 

China had reported WHO about the first case of pneumonia caused by an unknown virus in Wuhan, China on Dec. 31 and shut a wet market where the novel coronavirus was expected to have spread. The Health Ministries approached the WHO in May to identify the origin of the infection and how it crossed the species boundary. 

Presently a team consisting of around 12-15 international scientists are getting ready to visit Wuhan and investigate the facts, including human and animal samples gathered by Chinese scientists, and to develop on their underlying investigations. 

President Trump's administration has blamed China for attempting to conceal the underlying virus flare-up. There was a battle of words between both the countries because of the pandemic outbreak. 

The United States has urged for a "transparent" inquiry by WHO and criticized its terms, which permitted Chinese researchers to do the primary phase of fundamental research. In May, the Trump administration had ended its fundings to the WHO and pulled out of the organization, blaming it for protecting China when the pandemic broke out.

At the beginning of the infection, it was traced to the "wet market" in Wuhan, Hubei area, and it was stated that this was the place where it took the jump from animals to humans.

However, experts presently believe it might just have been heightened there. 

Beijing says, they will welcome the team of international scientists from WHO in Jan. China has flatly opposed calls for an investigation into the origin of the Covid-19, saying such requests are anti-China, however, has been open to a WHO-led probe. 

However, it was vague whether the WHO experts will make a trip to the city of Wuhan where the infection was first distinguished, with conversations on the schedule progressing. 

During a press conference on Thursday, Babatunde Olowokure, the WHO's regional emergencies chief in the Western Pacific stated that "WHO has continuously been in contact with China for discussing the international team and its places of visit.

On Wednesday, a WHO member and representatives told Reuters that the team is expected to visit China to investigate the origin of coronavirus in the first week of January.

However, Chinese FM's representative Wang Wenbin didn't directly remark on the WHO's visit during a press conference on Thursday. 

Coronavirus infections have been recorded in more than 210 nations and regions since the time it was first reported in China in December 2019. More than 72.92 million individuals have been reported to be tainted by the SARS Cov-2 and around 1,641,733 have died, as indicated by Reuters.