Coronavirus lab leak “extremely unlikely”, bats may be culprit: WHO

March 29, 2021
12:16 pm

A joint WHO-China study on the origins of COVID-19 says that transmission of the virus from bats to humans through another animal is the most likely scenario and that a lab leak is “extremely unlikely”, a news agency reported on Monday.
The findings were largely as expected and left many questions unanswered, and the team proposed further research in every area except the lab leak hypothesis, the report said.

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