WHO report: COVID-19 likely first jumped into humans from animals
Geneva | A joint World Health Organisation-China study on the origins of COVID-19 says that transmission of the virus from bats to humans through another animal is the most likely scenario and that a laboratory leak is “extremely unlikely”, a draft copy obtained by The Associated Press says.
The findings offer little new insight into how the virus first emerged and leave many questions unanswered. But the report does provide more detail on the reasoning behind the researchers’ conclusions.
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