The World Health Organization unveils a new group to examine the emergence of the virus more closely.
But the WHO's director general, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, later said the investigation had been hampered by a lack of data and transparency from China.
In a joint editorial in the journal Science, Dr Tedros and other WHO officials said "a lab accident cannot be ruled out".Michael Ryan, the WHO's emergencies director, said Sago's work may be the "last chance to understand the origins of this virus". It's been nine months since the last WHO-convened mission returned from Wuhan, saying a similar animal spillover was the most likely source of the pandemic. But questions continue to be raised about a potential accident at a Wuhan lab which studies coronaviruses and keeps thousands of bat samples. China has strenuously denied this.
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