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World may never find COVID patient zero, WHO says

FILE PHOTO:  WHO Technical lead head COVID-19 Maria Van
FILE PHOTO: WHO Technical lead head COVID-19 Maria Van Kerkhove attends a news conference in Geneva

GENEVA (Reuters) – The world may never find “patient zero” in its search for the origins of COVID-19, Maria Van Kerkhove, World Health Organization’s technical lead on the disease, said on Friday.

A WHO-led team investigating the origins of COVID-19 is to hold virtual meetings with its Chinese hosts in Wuhan, where the pandemic first emerged more than a year ago.

(Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay and Emma Farge in Geneva and Michael Shields in Zurich; Writing by Nick Macfie; Editing by Toby Chopra)