A Chinese study reveals that, after a year and a half, it changed the course of the Corona pandemic

The American “Bloomberg” agency reported that an important Chinese study was investigating the origins of the outbreak of the Corona virus, whose publication was delayed for a year and a half, although it included information that would have changed the course of the pandemic, had it been taken seriously.

The agency added, on Tuesday, that the study contained carefully collected data, supported by photographic evidence, and supported the scientists' initial hypothesis, which stated that the outbreak arose mainly through transmission of the virus from infected wild animals, a hypothesis that prevailed until the hypothesis of the virus leakage from laboratory while conducting scientific research.

The Corona virus has caused the death of 4,370,427 people in the world since the World Health Organization office in China reported the emergence of the disease at the end of December 2019, according to a census conducted by Agence France-Presse based on official sources.

And the study, which was published last June in the electronic scientific journal Scientific Reports, revealed, although it was ready for publication a year and a half earlier, that mammals known to harbor the Corona virus, such as minks, civets and others, were sold in plain sight for years in stores, all over the world. Throughout the Chinese city of Wuhan, including the Wuhan market that sells live animals, where many early cases of COVID-19 were detected.

And “Bloomberg” stated that if the study had been announced immediately, the search for the origin of the virus might have taken a completely different path.

Last July, the World Health Organization proposed conducting a second phase of studies on the origin of the emerging corona virus in China, including a review of laboratories and markets in Wuhan, and called on the authorities to be transparent.

Immediately, Beijing rejected the criticism of the Director-General of the World Health Organization, and Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said that "some information related to private life cannot be copied and taken out of the country."

The spokesperson also rejected Tedros' statements that "there is a premature attempt" to reject the lab accident theory, and said, "This issue should not be politicized."