GENEVA — The findings of a WHO-led mission to Wuhan, China to investigate the origins of the virus that causes Covid-19 are expected in mid-March, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
“The current timing is the week of 14th-15th March,” Peter Ben Embarek, the head of the mission, told a Geneva news briefing.
Ben Embarek, a WHO expert on diseases that cross from animals to humans, had said at the end of the mission last month that the virus probably originated in bats, although it was not certain how it reached humans. He also effectively ruled out a lab leak.
WHO officials had earlier said that the mission might issue a summary report before its full findings…
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