A World Health Organization representative also warned that the virus may 'come back again.'
"Everything about the stepwise evolution over time strongly indicates that [this virus] evolved in nature and then jumped species," he told, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence stated the intelligence community"concurs with the wide scientific consensus that the COVID-19 virus was not manmade or genetically modified."However, it did not rule out that the outbreak could have begun through the"result of an accident at a laboratory in Wuhan.
There have been more than 3.6 million confirmed coronavirus cases since the outbreak began, according to data gathered by John Hopkins University. Its statistics also show more than 257,000 people infected with coronavirus, which then causes the disease COVID-19, have died after being diagnosed. Lockdown measures have been put in place across nations across the globe, with some beginning to lift restrictions despite concerns this might prompt a second wave of the outbreak. The doctor who treated the first COVID-19 patient in the U.S., shows the number of cases of COVID-19 in various U.S. states as of May 5.
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