WHO Unveils New Scientific Team to Study Covid’s Disputed Origin

The World Health Organization proposed a fresh team to lead an investigation into the origins of Covid-19 and other diseases after the last effort was wracked by controversy.

Selected from more than 700 applications, the 26 proposed members of the group have expertise in a range of areas from epidemiology to biosecurity, the WHO said Wednesday. They include Marion Koopmans from Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands, Christian Drosten from the Institute of Virology at Charite in Berlin and Yungui Yang, the deputy director at the Beijing Institute of Genomics.