World Health Organization researchers have denied the Chinese theory that the coronavirus was introduced to Wuhan through frozen food, highlighting the tense geopolitics around the origins of Covid-19, writes Financial Times.

" They were both part of a WHO team that traveled to Wuhan in January to investigate the causes of the pandemic.. But at a press conference that ended the visit last month, WHO did not rule out a theory that is being actively promoted by the Chinese government and state media, "

" He noted that frozen food samples from the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan that tested positive for Sars-Cov-2 were likely to have been contaminated by humans, not the other way around.. " "

" " The question is, where did the virus come from?.

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Peter Ben Embarek, the head of the investigation, also confirmed to Science magazine that frozen food "

" Food and Agriculture Organization of the United States said that contamination of food and packaging is " The publication recalls that in December, Chinese scientists in the eastern port city of Qingdao published a document detailing how they identified Sars-Cov-2 on the outer packaging of imported frozen cod.. In the same month, another Chinese research paper analyzed an outbreak in Beijing near the Sinfadi wholesale market.. The study found that many of the infected people were from the imported salmon market segment, where six out of 3,582 fish samples tested positive for Sars-Cov-2.

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