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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

WHO says coronavirus unlikely to have leaked from China lab

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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.

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