Covid-19: WHO team to visit China to find out its origin

Reports say that a team of biologists will visit Wuhan in China to trace the origin of the virus that has caused havoc across the world.

To date, 1.65 million people have lost their lives due to Covid-19 and 74.1 million have got the infection. 41.9 million have recovered and the rest of them are in the recovery process.

SARS-CoV-2 is a virus which supposedly started from the animal market in Wuhan. Initially, it infected the Chinese population and those who had visited China for tourism, business and other purposes.

These people, while returning to their own countries carried the infection and spread elsewhere.

That's how it developed into a pandemic. Though it started somewhere in September and October 2019, in India, the first case was detected on January 30, 2020.

Though China has been resisting any fact-finding inquiry for the spread of the pandemic, the WHO team persuaded after a lot of efforts.

Biologists say that the purpose of this visit is to find out the reason for the origin and the spread of the virus so that one can understand it better and avoid future occurrences.

They say the purpose was not to put any blame on any country.

Independent experts have also welcomed the decision as they believe that this will help us understand the reason as why and under what circumstances it started.

They say that unless we understand what caused the virus to originate, we will remain vulnerable to various other such outbreaks in future.

The Trump government in the US have already blamed China for this virus.