A senior Chinese diplomat says it was 'unfair' for Australia to push for an international probe into the origins of coronavirus, but how is that WHO investigation going and when can we expect to hear results?
A further update is slated to be given in January and at next May's WHA meeting the panel will deliver its substantive report.
"But the intermediate host has not yet been identified. However, three important areas of work are already underway in China to inform our understanding of the zoonotic origin of this outbreak," the report said. John Nicholls, a pathology expert at the University of Hong Kong, has questioned whether finding the origin of the pandemic even matters.What has the response been?
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