“I think it is highly speculative for us to say that the disease has not been reported in China,” said Mike Ryan.

Geneva:

The World Health Organization’s leading emergency expert said on Friday it would be “highly speculative” for the WHO to say the coronavirus did not appear in China, where it was first identified on a food market in December of last year.…

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