Genetic data analysis links COVID-19’s origins to raccoon dogs in China's Wuhan market, adding weight to the theory that infected animals sold at the site started the pandemic, experts say.
/World Health Organization advisers have urged China to release all information related to the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic after new findings were briefly shared on an international database used to track pathogens.
WHO officials discussed the matter with Chinese colleagues, who explained the new data was intended to be used to update a preprint study from 2022. SAGO was tasked by the WHO to continue to investigate the origins of the pandemic that has killed nearly seven million people worldwide.How one province's 1 million daily COVID-19 cases is exposing China's straining health system
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