News Desk
Peter Ben Embarek, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) led team of experts investigating the origins of Covid-19, said on Tuesday that it was “very unlikely” that a leak from a laboratory was the source of the outbreak.
During its investigation in the central Chinese city where the virus first emerged, the team visited the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the subject of a number of conspiracy theories that claim a lab leak caused the city’s outbreak.
World Health Organization foreign expert Peter Ben Embarek said identifying the animal pathway remains a “work in progress”, adding the absence of bats in the Wuhan area dimmed the likelihood of direct transmission.
