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Origin unknown - further studies needed to find the origin of SARS-CoV-2
At the beginning of 2021, a commission of international experts appointed by the WHO was in Wuhan to investigate the origin of SARS-CoV-2 in more detail. The WHO published its initial findings in a report on March 30, 2021. A lot has happened since lung diseases of unknown cause began to accumulate in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019. We now know the cause, the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, and its potentially lethal effect on the human organism. Less than a year later, the first vaccines against the new pathogen were already available. Meanwhile, the origin of the pathogen remains unknown