Wildlife farms in southern China likely source of Covid pandemic, WHO expert says Coronavirus Outbreak News


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An expert at the World Health Organisation (WHO) rejected the possibility that Covid-19 emerged in a lab and claimed that wildlife farms in China are likely the source of the novel coronavirus pandemic. Peter Daszak, a member of the WHO team that travelled to China to probe the origin of Covid-19, told an American news agency that the officials found new evidence suggesting that wildlife farms in southern China were supplying animals to vendors at the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market in Wuhan -- where the early Covid-19 outbreak emerged. According to the report, Daszak said the Chinese government thought those...