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Fortune
Christiaan Hetzner

New WHO chief scientist backs China fact-finding mission to examine COVID origin

Jeremy Farrar is the new chief scientist of the World Health Organization. (Credit: Chau Doan—LightRocket via Getty Images))

The world’s first pandemic in a century may be effectively over, but families of the nearly 7 million victims are no closer to understanding the origin of the deadly novel Coronavirus.

Whether it naturally sprang from animals at a Chinese wet market or was a deliberately engineered virus that leaked from a lab remains to this day a question shrouded in mystery, providing fertile ground for conspiracy theories. 

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