'Last chance to know COVID origins': WHO urges China for data as new probe group formed – The Week

The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Wednesday said that its newly formed advisory group on dangerous pathogens may be “the last chance” to determine the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and urged China to provide data from early cases, news agency Reuters reported. The organisation was referring to the 26-member Scientific Advisory Group on the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO), which includes Marion Koopmans, Thea Fischer, Hung Nguyen and Chinese animal health expert Yang Yungui, all of whom were part of an earlier probe in Wuhan.à‚ The first probe into the origins of the virus, conducted in January, had hit…