WHO Considers Food Chain Role in COVID-19 Origin Report
In May 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) attempted to verify the zoonotic source of the SARS-CoV-2 virus (COVID-19) and its route of introduction to the human population, including a possible role of intermediate hosts. The aim of the study was to prevent reinfection in both animals and humans, and also to establish new zoonotic reservoirs, thereby reducing further risks of the emergence, and also transmission, of zoonotic diseases.
A group of international scientists assembled by WHO traveled to Wuhan, China, where the first cases of Coronavirus were reported, at the end of 2019.