UPDATED — Covid-19 roundup: WHO all but confirms virus not man-made; NeuroRx, Relief say they don't know if IV treatment works
The WHO has been working on tracing the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic in recent weeks, sending a field team to Wuhan, China, to investigate. And Tuesday morning, they all but ruled out the possibility that the virus was man-made.
Researchers with the organization said the novel coronavirus stemming from the result of a lab accident was “extremely unlikely,” confirming what most health experts had said since it first emerged in late 2019. The evidence continues to point toward the virus spreading from animals to humans.
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