There are still "many questions" about the origin of the Sars-Cov-2 that caused the current pandemic. To remember him is virologist and president of the Italian drug agency (Aifa) Giorgo Palù.
"We do not know if the spill-over", that is the leap of species, "was natural or if it was an accident", explains Palù today in an interview taken by the press agencies. Too many questions therefore, according to the virologist, to which China has not yet provided an answer.
"We will not know until the Chinese break the silence - accuses the professor -. They did not want to hand over the laboratory records or give answers to the WHO envoys ". And then" the intermediate animal host who would have acted as a bridge between bat and man was not found ".
As for the management of future emergencies, for the president of Aifa "we need a specific European organization". "Now it exists, but it is a bureaucratic office. More pandemics will come", warns the expert.
According to Palù, it will be essential to "invest in science" and focus "on the high-tech pharmaceutical industry".
"Almost all European countries have their own vaccine, British, German, French and Spanish. We don't", he notes.
(Unioneonline / vl)
