On December 31, 2019, the presence of a new virus was announced for the first time in the city of Wuhan, China. Quickly, this virus spread throughout the world, a fact that shook the health networks in all countries.
So much so, that the World Health Organization, WHO, declared on January 30, 2020, the coronavirus as an international public health emergency.
To date, three years later, more than 750 million cases have been reported in the world and close to 7 million deaths, according to figures from Our World in Data.
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The United States is the country with the most reports of COVID-19, both in number of infections and deaths. According to records, more than 103 million people have been infected since the start of the pandemic and around one million people have lost their lives due to the virus..
India and France rank second and third. While the Asian nation has recorded 44 million cases and 530 deaths, the French have 38 million infections and 161 deaths.
On the other hand, some countries that have registered new cases in recent days have been Germany (20,759), Japan (12,166), South Korea (12,798) and Russia (10,345).
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What is the origin of COVID 19?
The origins of COVID-19 remain unclear, it is still not clear if the coronavirus that causes this disease was transmitted by an animal or left a laboratory.
However, a couple of days ago the director of the FBI, Christopher Wray, commented to Fox News that the agency has evaluated “for quite some time” that the origins of the pandemic are “most likely a possible laboratory incident in Wuhan .”
But other members of the US intelligence community disagree, and there is no consensus. Many scientists believe that the most likely explanation is that the virus passed from animals to humans, a hypothesis supported by several studies and reports.
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“Understanding the origins of the Covid 19 pandemic remains a scientific imperative, in order to establish measures to prevent future epidemics and pandemics.”
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus,
Director of the WHO.
The Chinese authorities have denied this thesis, stating that it is part of a smear campaign against Beijing.
“The United States is again stirring up the laboratory leak theory, which does not discredit China, but it does further undermine its own credibility,” said Mao Ning, a spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry.
In this regard, Tedros Adhanom, director of the WHO, said that “if any country has information about the origins of the pandemic, it is essential that this information be shared with the WHO and the international scientific community,” he also asked China to be transparent in the transmission of information and share the results of the investigations carried out.
