The World Health Organization (WHO) released its 124-page report on the origins and spread of the coronavirus this week. In episode 714 of ‘Cut the Clutter’, ThePrint’s Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta highlighted the reports main findings and the reactions it has elicited from world leaders.
The report stated that the coronavirus probably spread from bats to humans via another animal but the report still does not specify if the virus then spread from the lab in Wuhan, China. Calling the report an outcome of “red tapism and bureaucracy”, Gupta said, “The report, very bureaucratically, says that the virus has not come out of a lab in China. This pleases the Chinese government but it has to keep the US happy. US President Joe Biden, just like Donald Trump, is hard on the Chinese and said that the results were not conclusive.”About the WHO study
The report was a joint effort between 17 researchers from Australia, Denmark, Germany, Japan, Kenya, the Netherlands, Qatar, Russia, the UK, the US, Vietnam and a team of 17 researchers from China. These researchers spent a month conducting the study and research in the Chinese lab from where the virus is believed to have leaked.
Talking of the reactions to the report, Gupta said, “Even the most liberal of thinkers and media platforms are looking at this report with a lot of skepticism.”
Gupta cites Yanzhong Huang, a senior fellow for global health at the US Council for Foreign Relations, quoted in The New York Times report where he says, the report has the ‘risk of going nowhere’ — that is ending up in the middle of nowhere — and “we may never find the true origin of the virus
This is because the Chinese government will not let anyone find out the truth. They control your access, and they co-write the report with you and their scientists work with you,” added Gupta.
“Basically what they say is one, we know that it went from animal to human, we don’t know if it went from animal to animal to human, or went straight from animal to human. We also don’t know where it came from, or which animal had it, originally — they throw no light on that,” he said.
The report concludes that the Covid-19 virus made a zoonotic evolution, originating from a bat. Then, the virus travelled from another animal into the human body.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) released its 124-page report on the origins and spread of the coronavirus this week. In episode 714 of ‘Cut the Clutter’, ThePrint’s Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta highlighted the reports main findings and the reactions it has elicited from world leaders.
The report stated that the coronavirus probably spread from bats to humans via another animal but the report still does not specify if the virus then spread from the lab in Wuhan, China. Calling the report an outcome of “red tapism and bureaucracy”, Gupta said, “The report, very bureaucratically, says that the virus has not come out of a lab in China. This pleases the Chinese government but it has to keep the US happy. US President Joe Biden, just like Donald Trump, is hard on the Chinese and said that the results were not conclusive.”About the WHO study
The report was a joint effort between 17 researchers from Australia, Denmark, Germany, Japan, Kenya, the Netherlands, Qatar, Russia, the UK, the US, Vietnam and a team of 17 researchers from China. These researchers spent a month conducting the study and research in the Chinese lab from where the virus is believed to have leaked.
Talking of the reactions to the report, Gupta said, “Even the most liberal of thinkers and media platforms are looking at this report with a lot of skepticism.”
Gupta cites Yanzhong Huang, a senior fellow for global health at the US Council for Foreign Relations, quoted in The New York Times report where he says, the report has the ‘risk of going nowhere’ — that is ending up in the middle of nowhere — and “we may never find the true origin of the virus
This is because the Chinese government will not let anyone find out the truth. They control your access, and they co-write the report with you and their scientists work with you,” added Gupta.
“Basically what they say is one, we know that it went from animal to human, we don’t know if it went from animal to animal to human, or went straight from animal to human. We also don’t know where it came from, or which animal had it, originally — they throw no light on that,” he said.
The report concludes that the Covid-19 virus made a zoonotic evolution, originating from a bat. Then, the virus travelled from another animal into the human body.
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