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WHO group fails to answer question of how COVID-19 started

2025-06-29 09:23:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

WHO group fails to answer question of how COVID-19 started

A group of experts tasked by the World Health Organization to investigate how the COVID-19 pandemic began released its final report on Friday, reaching an unsatisfying conclusion: Scientists are still not sure how the worst health emergency in a century began.

At a press conference on Friday, Marietjie Venter, the group's chairwoman, said that most scientific data supports the hypothesis that the new coronavirus jumped to humans from animals.

This was also the conclusion drawn by the first WHO expert group investigating the origins of the pandemic in 2021, when scientists concluded that the virus likely spread from bats to humans, via another intermediary animal.

Venter said that after more than three years of work, the WHO expert group was unable to obtain the data needed to assess whether or not COVID-19 was the result of a laboratory accident, despite repeated requests for hundreds of genetic sequences and more detailed biosafety information made to the Chinese government.

WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said it was a "moral imperative" to determine how COVID began, noting that the virus killed at least 20 million people, wiped at least $10 trillion from the global economy and upended the lives of billions of people.

US President Donald Trump has long claimed that the coronavirus was a laboratory accident in China, while a US intelligence analysis found that there was insufficient evidence to prove the theory.

Chinese officials have repeatedly rejected the idea that the pandemic may have started in a laboratory, saying that research into its origins should be conducted elsewhere./ CNA





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