2021-07-29 03:05:27 GMT2021-07-29 11:05:27(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
KATHMANDU, July 29 (Xinhua) Efforts to probe the origin of COVID-19 could be hamstrung by the politicization of the issue, with a conspiracy theory about lab leaks taking precedence over a scientific conclusion, Nepali health and foreign policy experts have said recently. It is unfortunate that politics have muddled the issue of identifying the source of COVID-19, said Baburam Marasini, a former director of the Epidemiology and Disease Control Division under the Ministry of Health and Population.
In a report released by the World Health Organization (WHO) in late March after a field study in China s Wuhan, it was concluded that a lab-leak explanation of the origin of the coronavirus was extremely unlikely.
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As Nepal struggles to contain Covid-19, risk of Zika outbreak rises
As Nepal struggles to contain Covid.
Nepal is highly vulnerable to Zika outbreak as the virus vectors are present in almost all parts of the country. Epidemiologists say government lacks testing kits to carry out surveillance.
Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus mosquitoes that transmit the dengue virus have been present in almost all districts throughout the country. These mosquitoes also transmit the Zika virus.
And what is concerning is, there has been an outbreak of Zika virus in neighbouring India with which Nepal shares a long open border.
As thousands of people enter the country every day from India, the chances of the virus spreading into Nepal is high, experts say.