世卫专家：没有证据表明新冠病毒起源于武汉市场
世界卫生组织国际专家组来自俄罗斯的专家弗拉基米尔·杰德科夫(Vladimir Dedkov)表示，武汉华南海鲜市场可能具备新冠病毒传播的条件，但没有证据表明病毒来自那里。
周三，世卫组织专家组参观了武汉病毒研究所，并访问了研究所内的生物安全四级（BSL-4）实验室。杰德科夫表示：“实验室的设施完备，很难想象有东西能从这个实验室泄漏出去。”
Wuhan's Huanan seafood market may have conditions for the spread of the coronavirus, but there is no evidence that the virus originated there, according to World Health Organization (WHO) expert Vladimir Dedkov, who's part of the team conducting field trips in Wuhan.
"The market is very far from perfect... It is not for sure that it happened there, there is no evidence that the virus originated there, maybe the virus appeared in another place, but hypothetically, there are all conditions for the spread of the virus there," Dedkov said in an interview with Sputnik News on Thursday.
Dedkov is also deputy director for scientific work at the St. Petersburg Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology in Russia.
The Huanan seafood market was found linked to an early cluster of COVID-19 cases, but scientists have yet to come to an unequivocal conclusion regarding the role it played in the contagion.
The WHO team has been visiting several locations in Wuhan, including hospitals where COVID-19 patients were treated during the early stage of the outbreak and markets that were linked to early cluster infections.
On Wednesday, the team also visited the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which had been accused of leaking the coronavirus. Dedkov also refuted the theory of a virus leakage from there after the visit.
"It is well organized. I do not know who criticized them, the laboratory is perfectly equipped. It is hard for me to imagine that something could have leaked from there," Dedkov said.
The Wuhan Institute of Virology issued an open letter last February, saying the assumptions were false rumors and the conscience of the staff in the institute was "absolutely clear."