The World Health Organization mission to China to uncover the origins of the coronavirus has failed to identify the source of the pandemic but the team on Tuesday ruled out the Wuhan lab-leak theory propagated by Donald Trump.
Experts believe the disease — which has killed more than 2.3 million people worldwide — originated in bats and could have been transmitted to humans via another mammal.
WHO foreign expert Peter Ben Embarek said identifying the animal pathway remains a “work in progress,” and the absence of bats in the Wuhan area dimmed the likelihood of direct transmission.
It was “most likely” to have come from an intermediary species, he said. He also backed up Chi…
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