World Coronavirus Dispatch: WHO findings seen as a win for China

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A public relations win for China after WHO findings in Wuhan

The Chinese position on the origins of coronavirus has been reinforced after a World Health Organization (WHO) team concluded that it is unlikely the virus may have leaked from a Chinese lab. A 14-member team of experts probing the origins of coronavirus in China's laboratories, disease-control centres and live-animal markets have suggested that the pathogen jumped to humans through an intermediary host species, indicating that more studies are required to come to a definite conclusion. The WHO findings have aided the Chinese theory that the virus might have spread to