The World Health Organization suggests that the coronavirus could not have been transmitted to humans directly from bats, but through an intermediate animal or even several of their species, to which Covid-19 could adapt.
This was stated by the senior expert of the laboratory of the World Health Organization Frank Konings, the video was published on Twitter.
Yes, the researchers came to the conclusion that the virus could be transmitted directly from bats to humans, but this is unlikely. Most likely, it passed from the bat to one or more species of animals "where it had the opportunity to adapt to them", and only then was transmitted to humans. According to Konings, if scientists find a version of the virus that has not yet adapted to humans, they will be able to understand "what changes in the virus are important when infecting people, which will allow creating more effective vaccines and drugs."
Now specialists are conducting experiments on various animals "with the aim of revealing their propensity to infection with the coronavirus."
