WHO: Animal-to-human virus transmission most likely


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The virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic is "extremely unlikely" to have originated in a lab, but most likely jumped from an animal to humans, according to a World Health Organization report released on Tuesday by a joint international and Chinese team probing the virus' origins . According to the 120-page report, the virus most probably jumped from an animal, potentially a bat or pangolin, to an unknown intermediate animal host and then to humans. However, the path of transmission is still not known. There is no record of viruses closely related to SARS-CoV-2 in any laboratory before December 2019,...