UPDATE 1-WHO says report on China mission on COVID-19 origins due in mid-March


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(Adds details, background) By Stephanie Nebehay and Emma Farge GENEVA, March 5 (Reuters) - 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...