BFF-36 No indication of Covid-19 virus in Wuhan before December 2019: WHO mission

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No indication of Covid-19 virus in Wuhan before December 2019: WHO mission

WUHAN, China, Feb 9, 2021 (BSS/AFP) – There is insufficient evidence to
determine that Covid-19 was being spread in China’s central Wuhan before
December 2019, a joint WHO and Chinese expert mission into the origins of the
pandemic in Wuhan said Tuesday.

“There is no indication of the transmission of the Sars-Cov-2 in the
population of the period before Dec 2019,” said Liang Wannian, head of the
China team, at a press conference, adding that there was “not enough
evidence” to determine if the virus had spread in the city prior to that.

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