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World Health Organization COVID-19 team in China announces findings to fact-finding mission
The World Health Organization team in the Chinese city of Wuhan announced there was no evidence of the coronavirus being detected in Wuhan prior to 2019.
The team, along with Chinese experts and counterparts, held a press conference to announce the conclusion into their fact-finding mission into the origins of COVID-19.
China’s head of the COVID-19 expert panel, Liang Wannian, said it believed that the disease may have originated from a zoonotic transmission, or from animals to humans, which then evolved.
However, he said the reservoir host has yet to be identified.
While bats and pangolins could possibly be the reservoir due to high similarities of genetic sequences, there was no evidence to suggest their coronavirus had a direct link to…
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