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COVID-19 origins still obscure, what are the next steps for WHO's experts?
•The group of scientists wants a new inquiry to include biosecurity and biosafety experts to investigate the origins of COVID-19.
WHO COVID-19 origins report: Which animals might've passed COVID-19 virus to humans?
•An international team of WHO experts, visited Wuhan, suspect animals from rabbits to ferret badgers to raccoons and civets.
WHO COVID-19 origins report: Virus may have jumped from bats to humans via second animal; lab leak highly unlikely
•Spread of the novel SARS-CoV-2 virus through 'cold-chain' food products was possible but not likely, the researchers reported.
Four theories are being considered as possible origins for the COVID-19 virus
•It wasn’t immediately clear when the international report will be released after its publication was delayed earlier this month.
Anticipating WHO's COVID-19 origins report, tensions rise between US, China
•Experts believe that SARS-CoV-2 originally came from bats, and jumped into humans via an intermediate animal.
QnA: WHO experts, Chinese researchers to produce joint report on coronavirus origins
•The researchers claim to have established a link and a potential pathway for the early COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan.
WHO team probing COVID-19 outbreak says virus unlikely to have leaked from Chinese lab
•The team found no proof of the disease spreading earlier than the initial outbreak in the second half of December 2019.
What are WHO researchers trying to learn about COVID-19 origins in Wuhan? Is the secrecy necessary?
•Possible visits after a 14-day quarantine are to the market where the first cases came up in December 2019, and the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
WHO expert team arrives in Wuhan to begin investigating the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic
•A single scientific visit is unlikely to confirm the origins; it could take years of genetic analysis and epidemiological studies to find an answer.
Study suggests COVID-19 may have originated as early as September
Myupchar •A Cambridge study, which is yet to be peer-reviewed, has used genetic data to suggest that COVID-19 may have originated in September.