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'Likely to very likely' that Covid reached humans through intermediary animal: report
- The experts said that the intermediary host hypothesis was deemed "likely to very likely", while the theory.
GENEVA: An international expert mission to Wuhan has concluded that it was very likely that Covid first passed to humans from a bat through an intermediary animal, while all but ruling out a lab incident.
The experts said that the intermediary host hypothesis was deemed "likely to very likely", while the theory that the virus escaped from a laboratory was seen as "extremely unlikely", according to the final version of the long-awaited report, of which AFP obtained a copy Monday before the official release.
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