Experts from the World Health Organization (WHO) have arrived in Wuhan, China, where the new coronary virus was first detected in humans. Their goal is to shed light on how the virus first spread to humans, but the project has met with opposition in China.
The scientists landed in China on January 6. The WHO scientists were denied entry to the country. Negotiations on the project between the WHO and the Chinese authorities had been going on for many months.
It has been more than a year since the virus was first detected in humans.
Members of the government of Donald Trump, the outgoing president of the United States, have aimed their spears at China because of the epidemic, but the United States has come out the worst because of it.
Chinese officials have been dissatisfied with the allegations and allegations that they misled people at the beginning of the epidemic, which killed nearly two million people, and have hinted that the virus actually spread to China from abroad.
Chinese officials are also said to have significantly restricted the flow of information and research into the possible origin of Covid-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. Researchers who have tried to study the origin of the disease in China are said to have faced major obstacles from the government.
A total of thirteen scientists landed in Wuhan this morning and will be quarantined for fourteen days, according to the AP news agency . At that time, they will begin their work through teleconferencing equipment and Chinese scientists.
An AP spokesman said WHO scientists would “share their views” with Chinese scientists, but he would not say whether they were allowed to take samples or collect evidence in any other way.
Authorities in China allowed WHO scientists into the country in July but were sent to a fourteen-day quarantine and barred from entering Wuhan. According to the New York Times , experts fear the outcome will be similar again. Politics will prevent a real investigation.
