COVID-19: World Health Organization expert in Wuhan says lab leak 'very unlikely' as coronavirus source


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The Wuhan Institute of Virology, right, has been the subject of several conspiracy theories that claim a laboratory leak caused the city's coronavirus outbreak. Photo credit: Newshub. The head of the World Health Organization-led team of experts investigating the origins of COVID-19, Peter Ben Embarek, said on Tuesday (local time) 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 laboratory...