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The World Health Organization (WHO) has come under renewed scrutiny in recent days over its handling of the ...

This week, a much anticipated fact-finding mission into the origins of Covid-19 returned from a month-long field visit to China. The team of scientists appointed by the World Health Organization is currently writing up their findings, which will be published in a summary report next week, with a full report expected to follow sometime after that. But on Tuesday, at a joint briefing with Chinese health officials, the team’s leaders gave the world a sneak peek at what new information they had unearthed. In short, not much. “Did we change dramatically the picture we had beforehand? I d...

No sign of COVID virus in Wuhan before Dec 2019 No sign of COVID virus in Wuhan before Dec 2019 Reuters / Updated: Feb 10, 2021, 06:00 IST WHO animal source yet unidentified WUHAN, CHINA: The WHO mission to China to uncover the origins of the coronavirus has failed to identify the animal source, scientists said on Tuesday. Experts believe the disease -- which has gone on to kill more than 2.3 million people worldwide -- originated in bats and could have been transmitted to humans via another mammal. It is unlikely to have leaked from the lab, said the WHO team. While transmission from anima...

'There is no indication of the transmission of the Sars-Cov-2 in the population of the period before December 2019,' said Liang Wannian, head of the China team.

WHO foreign expert Ben Embarak, who was based in the WHO's Beijing office for two years from 2009, backed up the assertion saying there was no evidence of 'large outbreaks in Wuhan' before then.