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WHO scientists to travel to China's Wuhan, investigate COVID-19 origins

The Free Press Journal | 17/12/2020 09:51 AM | Click to read full article

A team of 10 international scientists will travel to the Chinese city of Wuhan next month to investigate the origins of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19), the World Health Organization (WHO) has said.

In the early days of the virus, it was traced to a so-called "wet market" in Wuhan, Hubei province, and it was suggested that this was where it made the leap from animals to humans. But experts now believe it may simply have been amplified there.

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