COVID-19 pandemic's origins obscured by lack of Chinese data: WHO panel


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LONDON: The World Health Organization said on Thursday (Jun 9) its latest investigation into the origins of COVID-19 was inconclusive, largely because data from China is missing, another blow to its years-long effort to determine how the pandemic began. The report from the WHO expert panel said all available data showed the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19 probably came from animals, likely bats, a similar conclusion to the UN agency's previous work on the topic in 2021 that followed a trip to China. The missing data, especially from China, where the first cases were reported in December 2019, meant it...