Chinese data needed to investigate origins of COVID-19 pandemic, WHO experts say | Radio-Canada News

An expert panel set up by the World Health Organization to help investigate the origins of the coronavirus pandemic says more research is needed to determine how COVID-19 started, including more detailed analysis of the possibility that it was a laboratory accident. This position marks a sharp reversal of the UN agency's initial assessment of the origins of the pandemic. The WHO concluded last year that it was "extremely unlikely" that COVID-19 spread to humans from a laboratory. Many scientists suspect that the coronavirus jumped to humans from bats, possibly via another animal. In a report released on Thursday, the…