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COVID-19 Origins

China has been transparent in sharing its research results on the origins-tracing of SARS-CoV-2 with the international community, Shen Hongbing, deputy chief of the National Administration of Disease Prevention and Control and Director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC), said at a press conference on April 8.

“Since the outbreak of COVID-19, we have been actively communicating and cooperating with the World Health Organization (WHO) and invited the WHO to send international experts twice to conduct joint studies on SARS-CoV-2 originstracing in China,” Shen said.

He said the first

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