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WHO to sift Chinese samples, data in hunt for virus origins

by Frank Jordans
| December 15, 2020 10:09 AM

FALKENSEE, Germany (AP) — A German scientist who is part of a small team of experts assembled by the World Health Organization to investigate the origins of the coronavirus says they plan to sift through samples and medical data from China to help determine where the bug first jumped from animals to humans and which species it came from.

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