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WHO says 'frozen food' may have started Covid but rules out lab leak

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coronavirus in China have given their first major update since arriving almost a month ago.The World Health Organization (WHO) investigators have had nearly a month of meetings and site visits in Wuhan, where the disease was first identified, and have now ruled out a laboratory leak and said it may have been imported into the Chinese city in frozen meat.Saying their findings show previously-made claims that the virus came from a lab are "extremely unlikely", the WHO investigative team has said that an animal intermediary is the most likely source of SARS-CoV-2 – although it is still unclear exactly which animal it came from."The findings suggest lab incident hypothesis is extremely unlikely to explain the introduction of the virus into the.

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