Experts on WHO Team Say Search for COVID-19 Origins Has Stalled

Experts on WHO Team Say Search for COVID-19 Origins Has Stalled
Security personnel clear the way for a convoy of the World Health Organization team to enter the Huanan Seafood Market on the third day of field visit in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province, on Jan. 31, 2021. Ng Han Guan/AP Photo
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LONDON—The international scientists dispatched to China by the World Health Organization to find out where the coronavirus came from said Wednesday the search has stalled and warned that the window of opportunity for solving the mystery is “closing fast.”

Meanwhile, a U.S. intelligence review ordered up by President Joe Biden proved inconclusive about the virus’s origin, including whether it jumped from an animal to a human or escaped from a Chinese lab, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.