Thailand to address theory coronavirus emerged at Bangkok’s Chatuchak Market

Thai public health officials this afternoon will respond later this afternoon to a report suggesting Bangkok’s sprawling Chatuchak Market was the origin of the global pandemic that has ravaged the world for over a year now.

The Disease Control Department is expected to forcefully deny speculation raised in a Danish news report that the massive open market could have spawned Sars-Cov-2 amid a WHO inquiry’s belief it may have originated in Southeast Asia rather than China.

Denmark’s Politiken published a Danish-language article Monday questioning whether Chatuchak was indeed “the place that brought the coronavirus to Wuhan.” It cited Danish epidemiologist Thea Kolsen Fischer, who was on a recent WHO fact-finding mission to China that said Southeast Asia could be a source of the virus. 

The team this month complained that its investigation was hampered by…