The newly released COVID origins data point to raccoon dogs in China market and suggest that this may be a growing trend

Key Highlights :

1. Genetic material collected from a Chinese market near where the first human cases of COVID-19 were identified show raccoon dog DNA comingled with the virus, suggesting the pandemic may have originated from animals.

2. The data doesn't provide a definitive answer to how the pandemic began, but every piece of data is important to moving us closer to that answer.

3. WHO's COVID-19 technical lead, Maria Van Kerkhove, cautioned that the analysis did not find the virus within any animal, nor did it find any hard evidence that any animals infected humans.

This new analysis suggests that the COVID-19 pandemic may have originated from animals, not a lab.

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