WHO says coronavirus unlikely to have leaked from China lab
Posted Feb 9, 2021 07:05:10 AM.
Last Updated Feb 9, 2021 07:09:08 AM.
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WUHAN, China — A World Health Organization expert says the coronavirus is unlikely to have leaked from a Chinese lab and most probably jumped to humans via an intermediary species. WHO food safety and animal diseases expert Peter Ben Embarek made the assesment in a summation Tuesday of a WHO team’s investigation into the possible origins of the coronavirus in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, where the first cases were discovered in December 2019.
The Associated Press
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