WHO Cancels Interim Report on China COVID Investigation

A Wall Street Journal report says World Health Organization investigators who recently visited China to determine the origins of the emergence of the COVID-19 virus will not release a promised interim report of their findings.The Journal account, published Thursday, said the WHO team decided not to release its interim account "amid mounting tensions between Beijing and Washington." Another international group of scientists has called for the WHO to conduct a new inquiry into COVID's origins.The scientists calling for a new probe said in an open letter Thursday that the WHO team "did not have the mandate, the independence, or the…