WSJ: WHO Plans to Re-investigate Origin of Coronavirus

The Wall Street Journal, a US daily, wide-influential newspaper, reported that the World Health Organization (WHO is planning to reopen the investigation to determine the origin of the novel Coronavirus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic.

The newspaper revealed, according to representatives of the organization, that there is not much time left to solve this problem.

The organization will form a new experienced group that comprises 20 people, which will include experts in biological protection and safety in laboratories, as well as experts in animal diseases.

It is noteworthy that the former international group of scientists, worked in China from January to February, and during that period, the group visited the Wuhan Institute of Virology, including the BSL-4 laboratory that was linked to rumors of virus leakage, a hospital, the Hunan Seafood Market, and the Control Center for Diseases and their prevention.

According to the group's final report, the SARS-CoV-2 virus was most likely transmitted to humans from bats through another animal as similar pathogens were found in pangolins, indicating transmission between different species.

Earlier, the head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, called for further investigation into the possibility of the virus leaking from the laboratory, because experts did not find the source of the virus.

On the other hand, Dr.    Ghebreyesus,   warns that the world is getting through a very dangerous stage of developing the Coronavirus (known also as COVID-19) after the emerging of the "Delta" strain.

He added that this strain was detected in ninety-eight regions in the world so far.

He stressed that the "Delta" strain is very dangerous as it continues to mutate.

He added that this strain becomes the most overwhelming in a number of countries so the planet faces challenges due to that stage of the pandemic.

Chief of the WHO went on to say that the health system across the globe must monitors thoroughly the new mutations of the deadly virus and prepared means to handle them.

He pointed out the importance of early examinations, checks of infection, isolating the patients, and treating them.

He recommends other people to put on facial masks and shields along with social distancing as well as airing the places of gatherings.

Dr. Ghebreyesus urges the international community to share vaccines, respiratory devices, medicaments, methods of examinations, and accelerating vaccination.

He indicated that the best way to keep the pandemic at bay, save souls, catalyst the recovery of the world economy, and prevent the emergence of new strains of the COVID-19.

However, A new count prepared by "Reuters", a news agency and Johns Hopkins University, USA, reveals that the Coronavirus (known also as COVID-19) has claimed the lives of more than 4 million and eighty thousand people.