Experts say mink, cat, etc. May also be the host of COVID-19. What happened?

On February 9th, the China-WHO Joint Expert Group on Traceability Research in novel coronavirus held a press conference. Liang Wannian, the Chinese leader of the joint expert investigation team, said that the coronavirus found in bats and pangolins was not enough to be the direct ancestor of COVID-19. Animals such as minks and cats may also be potential hosts.

Earlier, Zhang Wenhong, director of the Infectious Diseases Department of Huashan Hospital affiliated to Fudan University, made suggestions for the citizens to spend a peaceful Spring Festival when interviewed by Shanghai TV.

Zhang Wenhong said that last Spring Festival, the epidemic just began to spread, and the detection ability at that time was not as strong as it is now. At that time, the proposal of "preventing fire, theft and colleagues" was actually "preventing colleagues". In fact, what is really stopped is the dense crowd.

Extended data:

It is highly unlikely that the virus will leak out of the laboratory.

According to China Youth Network, at this conference, foreign expert Peter listed four hypotheses that COVID-19 passed on to people. Among them, it is most likely that the virus will be introduced into humans through intermediate hosts, that is, animals close to humans will be infected first, and then humans will be infected. In addition, it is also possible to infect people through cold chain food channels.

He said that it is extremely impossible to say that the laboratory virus leaked, and there will be no related research in the future. Previously, the West once thought that the COVID-19 virus was leaked from the laboratory, which led to some conspiracy theories.

65438+ 10/4, members of the World Health Organization virus traceability expert group came to Wuhan, and the isolation ended on June 5438+ 10/28. After that, the WHO expert group visited South China seafood market, CDC, Wuhan Virus Research Institute and other places for field investigation.

Liang Wannian, Chinese leader of the joint expert investigation team, said at the meeting that the joint research team included 17 experts from China and 17 experts from various countries from the World Health Organization and the World Organization for Animal Health. He said that the joint expert group was divided into three joint research groups and conducted a 28-day virus traceability work in Wuhan.

World Wide Web-Joint Traceability Research: Minks and cats may also be the hosts of COVID-19.