[News] COVID-19: WHO mission reached Wuhan to find the origin of SARS-CoV-2

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Thirteen of the fifteen international experts that the World Health Organization (WHO) selected to find the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus are already in Wuhan and are in isolation, the organism's head, Tedros Adhanom Gebreyesus, announced.

Two of the members are in Singapore after testing positive for antibodies to the virus, although PCR test results were negative.

"The experts who arrived in Wuhan will be in quarantine for the next two weeks and will begin working remotely with their counterparts in China. Then they will continue their work on the ground for two more weeks," Adhanom told the International Committee of Emergencies

This Committee plans to extend the declaration of international emergency of COVID-19.

The visit is very delicate for the Chinese authorities, who want to dissociate themselves from any responsibility in this pandemic, which has claimed almost two million lives around the world.

Recommendations for WHO and member countries are scheduled to be released at the end of the meeting, probably on Friday.

The British variant has already been located in 50 countries, and the South African, in 20, according to the WHO, which indicates that this census is probably underestimated.

Another variant, originating in the Brazilian Amazon, whose finding was announced on Sunday by Japan, is being analyzed and could impact the immune response, according to the WHO, which speaks of a "worrying variant."