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‘Major stones unturned’: COVID origin search must continue after WHO report, say scientists

Investigation team rules out idea that the coronavirus came from a laboratory leak, but offers two hypotheses popular in Chinese media.
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Scientists say that the hunt for the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic must continue, after a World Health Organization (WHO) team’s visit to China produced no answers to key questions about how the coronavirus started infecting people.

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Nature 590, 371-372 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00375-7

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