China Asks WHO To Investigate The Possibility Of US Soldiers Bringing Corona Virus To Wuhan And Trigger Pandemic

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JAKARTA - Pathogen experts in Wuhan have encouraged the World Health Organization (WHO) team to track the link between the COVID-19 pandemic and the Military World Games (MWG) activities. Specifically, one of China's requests is to find out the possibility of the corona virus being carried by the United States (US) soldiers participating in the MWG,

The team, as is known, is conducting research on the origin of COVID in Hubei, China. Epidemiological investigations can be carried out by examining the first ten or 20 cases that occurred in Wuhan so that it can help find out how the virus was transmitted and where it came from.

This was conveyed by Yang Zhanqiu, Deputy Director of the Department of Pathogen Biology at Wuhan University, quoted by the Global Times, Monday, January 18. If an epidemiological investigation carried out by WHO finds any transmission from people who have traveled abroad, it must be followed up immediately.

Likewise, if there are allegations that US military personnel came to Wuhan to take part in the MWG to bring COVID-19 to China to spread throughout the world, then WHO must investigate it by linking the first case that occurred in Wuhan.

The MWG was held in Wuhan on 18-27 October 2019 and was attended by 9,308 athletes from 110 countries. Previously, several media in China linked COVID-19, which was first discovered in Wuhan in December 2019 with the MWG.

Thirteen experts from the WHO arrived in Wuhan on Thursday, January 14 to investigate COVID-19 and are currently in quarantine for 14 days. Initially there were 15 members of the WHO team, but two of the swab test results were positive while in transit in Singapore, so they failed to leave for Wuhan.