US EditionOrigins of COVID-19 still unclear according to final report from WHO expert group
- On Friday, WHO released its final 78-page SAGO report stating all hypotheses, including zoonotic spillover and lab leak, remain on the table.
- Established in July 2021, SAGO of 27 experts faces data gaps, with much information still unavailable from China and other countries.
- SAGO reports that evidence favors animal spillover, but lab leak cannot be excluded due to data gaps, with no signs of early widespread infections before December 2019.
- WHO urges China and nations to share data; SAGO remains committed to reviewing new evidence, relying on member cooperation to clarify COVID-19 origins.
- The WHO’s final report emphasizes ongoing research and increased transparency as essential to understanding COVID-19’s origins and preventing future pandemics, amid global health impacts.
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WHO group fails to find COVID origins
LONDON — An expert group that the World Health Organization tasked with investigating how the COVID-19 pandemic started released its final report Friday, reaching an unsatisfying conclusion: Scientists still aren't sure how the worst health emergency in a century began.
WHO says all Covid-19 origin theories remain open after inconclusive study
All hypotheses on how the Covid-19 pandemic began remain open, the World Health Organization said Friday, following an inconclusive four-year investigation that was hamstrung by crucial information being withheld. WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, on May 28, 2025. Photo: WHO. The global catastrophe killed an estimated 20 million people, according to the WHO, while shredding economi…
Scientists Still Don't Know the Cause of Corona After Five Years: Trump's Theory Cannot Be Ruled Out
Do you still get it? After five years, millions of deaths worldwide, trillions in damages and endless palaver between virologists, intelligence services and world leaders, the WHO finally comes with its long-awaited final verdict on the origin of corona, COVID-19. And guess what? We still don't know. Foreign editor Bob van Huët explains.
From laboratory or animal transmission? After three and a half years of research, the same conclusion is: the origin of COVID-19 remains a mystery, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), which continues to lack information...
Spillover from animals or lab leak? WHO says Covid-19 origins still unknown as lack of data hampers four-year investigation
GENEVA, June 28 — All hypotheses on how the Covid-19 pandemic began remain open, the World Health Organization said yesterday, following an inconclusive four-year investigation that was hamstrung by crucial information being withheld. The global catastrophe killed an estimated 20 million people, according to the WHO, while shredding economies, crippling health systems and turning people’s lives upside-down. The first cases were detected in Wuhan…
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