COVID-19 may have spread in Wuhan seafood market, but originated elsewhere: WHO expert

MOSCOW — Wuhan’s Huanan seafood market may have made it possible for the novel coronavirus to spread, but it does not mean the virus originated there, a Russian expert has said. “There is no evidence that the virus originated there” but “hypothetically, there are all conditions for the spread of the virus there”, Vladimir Dedkov, a member of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) expert team, was Quote: d as saying by Sputnik on Thursday. The seafood market was linked to an early cluster of COVID-19 cases, but scientists have yet to come to an unequivocal conclusion regarding the role it…