COVID Possibly Started With Frozen Food According To Investigation
COVID POSSIBLY STARTED FROM FROZEN FOOD – According to an investigative team from the World Health Organization (WHO), COVID-19 could’ve possibly started with frozen food transport.
Back in late 2019, a mysterious virus was catching the attention of the medical community. This virus was first detected in Wuhan, China. Afterward, it was believed that the first patient who caught COVID-19 got exposed in a wet market.
Meanwhile, Dr. Peter Ben Embarek, the head of the COVID-19 origins mission said that COVID-19 was a natural occurrence. Moreover, he believed that the virus could’ve possibly started in a “natural reservoir” in bats.
However, he mentioned that identifying how the virus transferred from bats to humans was still a “work in progress”. But, he did mention that a “intermediary species” may have crossed over the virus from bats to humans.
Along with this, the experts also concluded that there was “no indication” that COVID-19 circulated in Wuhan before the first official cases were detected in December of 2019. According to an article from BBC, a medical expert from China who was part of the WHO team said the virus could have been in other regions before it was detected in Wuhan.
Furthermore, the team also called for an investigation into a “cold chain” transmission. This meant that the intermediary may have been the transportation of “frozen foods”.
Moreover, Dr. Peter Daszak believed that the origins that led to the spread of COVID-19 may be shifted to an area in South East Asia. As per the article, he said:
We’ve done a lot of work in China and if you map that back it starts to point towards the border and we know that there is very little surveillance on the other side in the whole region of South East Asia…
China is a very big place and South East Asia is a very big place. The supply chains to the Huanan seafood market were extensive, they were coming in from other countries, they were coming in from various parts of China, so to really trace that back it’s going to take some work.
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