WHO coronavirus report: Animal carrier 'very likely' started pandemic


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A cell, red, is infected with particles of the virus that causes COVID-19, yellow, in this image provided by the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. TOGO SHIRAISHI, CK TAN and SHIN WATANABE, Nikkei staff writers March 30, 2021 23:58 JST Updated on March 31, 2021 02:41 JST | China Copy Copied PARIS/SHANGHAI/DALIAN, China -- The novel coronavirus that has killed around 2.8 million people worldwide most likely first spread to humans from animals, a World Health Organization report on the origins of the pandemic has found. Tuesday's report almost totally rules out the laboratory leak hypothesis, which...