WHO Investigators Finally Visit Wuhan Seafood Market as Search | COVID-19 Up
WHO Investigators Finally Visit Wuhan Seafood Market as Search for Origins of Coronavirus Continues
@COVID19Up: A World Health Organization team has visited the seafood market linked to the earliest COVID-19 cases in Wuhan on the third day of field work in a long-awaited mission to China to investigate the origins of the pandemic.
A procession of vehicles carrying the team, made up of 14 scientists and WHO officials, was seen entering the barricaded Huanan Wholesale Seafood Market in midafternoon on Sunday.
WHO team member Peter Daszak wrote on Twitter that the trip to Huanan market and another wholesale market visited earlier in the day were “very informative & critical for our joint teams to understand the epidemiology of COVID as it started to spread at the end of 2019."
“As you walk around Huanan market you feel the sense of historical importance of this place & a sympathy for the vendors & community who lost their livelihoods due to COVID,” said Daszak, a disease ecologist and president of US-based EcoHealth Alliance. SOURCE
