Studies suggest that the coronavirus responsible for Covid-19 can be transmitted through frozen surfaces. But this is unlikely to be how the pandemic started.
More than a year after the Covid-19 – which has caused more than 2.5 million deaths worldwide – appeared, it is still unknown how the Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus which is responsible for it emerged and spread among humans. The idea that it may have spread from frozen infected animals is gaining momentum, especially in China where the epidemic started.
This hypothesis was not swept aside by the international team mandated by the World Health Organization (WHO) which visited the country in January. The team even claimed that it would be the subject of further research. However, during the press conference on February 9, investigators said it was “Unlikely that the pandemic was triggered [de cette manière]”, remember Nature. For them, the virus more likely originates from bats and would have been transmitted to humans by another living animal which would have served as an intermediate host.
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Nevertheless, points out Nature :
a confusion has arisen between, on the one hand, this call launched by the WHO for research on the contamination of frozen meats, and, on the other
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