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GENEVA, Oct 13 (Reuters) - The World Health Organization
(WHO) said on Wednesday that its newly formed advisory group on
dangerous pathogens may be "our last chance" to determine the
origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and called for cooperation from
China.
Maria van Kerkhove, WHO technical lead on COVID-19, voiced
hope that there would be further WHO-led international missions
to China which required its cooperation. Reports of China doing
tests for antibodies present in Wuhan residents in 2019 will be
"absolutely critical" to understand the virus origins, she said.
Mike Ryan, WHO's top emergency expert, told the news
conference that it may be the last chance to establish the
origin of SARS-CoV-2, "a virus that has stopped our whole
world".
(Reporting by Stephanie Nebehay in Geneva and Pushkala Aripaka
in Bengaluru;)