{"id":109475,"date":"2021-05-29T17:32:16","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T12:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=109475"},"modified":"2021-05-30T12:18:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T06:48:20","slug":"who-report-on-origin-of-covid-19-india-seeks-more-studies-on-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/who-report-on-origin-of-covid-19-india-seeks-more-studies-on-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO report on &#8220;Origin of Covid-19&#8221;: India seeks more studies on virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>What is the News?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>India has welcomed the global study on the origin of Covid-19 convened by the World Health Organisation(WHO). However, India demanded initiating further studies in order to reach robust conclusions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHO report on Origin of Covid-19: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The report had listed \u201cfour pathways\u201d or possible options that led to the Covid-19 pandemic:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A direct zoonotic transmission;<\/li>\n<li>Introduction of the virus through another intermediate host or animal;<\/li>\n<li>Introduction through the cold chain or food chain;<\/li>\n<li>Laboratory incident.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>What did the Global Study on the Origin of Covid-19 found?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The study <\/strong>was conducted by the World Health Organisation(WHO) in association with China.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The study has said that <\/strong>direct zoonotic transmission or the introduction of the virus through another intermediate host or animal are the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">most likely theories<\/span> of the origin of Covid-19.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Moreover, the introduction of the Covid-19 <\/strong>through the cold chain or food chain is also possible.<\/li>\n<li><strong>However, the lab leak theory<\/strong> <strong>of the virus<\/strong> was \u201cextremely unlikely\u201d. But there was a need for further research.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>India\u2019s stand on WHO&#8217;s study:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>India has called for a comprehensive and expert-led mechanism <\/strong>to investigate the origin of Covid-19 in cooperation with all stakeholders.<\/li>\n<li>Further, India also demanded that the<strong> mechanism should be supported by <\/strong>an additional WHO mission. This mission should have the power to visit the Chinese sites for further studies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>China\u2019s stand on WHO&#8217;s study:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>China has denied<\/strong>\u00a0the theory that there was a leak from the Wuhan lab (research on zoonotic transmissions of coronaviruses was taking place).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/MShareArticle?OrgId=G3H8KDGOC.1&amp;imageview=0\"><strong>The Hindu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? India has welcomed the global study on the origin of Covid-19 convened by the World Health Organisation(WHO). However, India demanded initiating further studies in order to reach robust conclusions. WHO report on Origin of Covid-19: The report had listed \u201cfour pathways\u201d or possible options that led to the Covid-19 pandemic: A&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/who-report-on-origin-of-covid-19-india-seeks-more-studies-on-virus\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WHO report on &#8220;Origin of Covid-19&#8221;: India seeks more studies on virus<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1351,1310,164,1305,7965,9],"tags":[1420,1289],"class_list":["post-109475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-daily-news","category-daily-news-updates","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-index-reports-bodies","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-ir_3","tag-soc_0","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704901993},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}