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.
Only a few weeks into the outbreak, the IHR Emergency Committee of independent experts recommended that WHO and China pursue efforts to identify the animal source of the virus.
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在整个2020年期间,世卫组织不断与中国以及其他会员国讨论关于研究和分享病毒来源相关信息的必要性。
Throughout 2020, WHO continued to discuss with China and other Member States the need to study and share information around the virus origins.
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各会员国在2020年5月世界卫生大会上通过了一项决议,其中指出需要“查找这一病毒的动物源头” :
The World Health Assembly resolution of May 2020, which was adopted by all Member States, cited a need “to identify the zoonoticsource”: