PRO/AH/EDR> COVID-19 update (118): animal, China, origin, WHO mission, report

COVID-19 — China
From the very beginning of the pandemic WHO has stressed the need to understand the origin of the virus in order to better understand the emergence of new pathogens and possible exposures.
Throughout 2020, WHO continued to discuss with China and other Member States the need to study and share information around the virus origins.
The World Health Assembly resolution of May 2020, which was adopted by all Member States, cited “as part of the One-Health Approach to identify the zoonotic