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The World Health Organization is expanding its search for the origins of the coronavirus. Experts are looking for cases outside of China in 2019. But they admit that finding “patient zero” may be impossible. This comes as a team of WHO-led experts begins examining the first cases in central China’s Wuhan. #China #WHO
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