WHO drops Wuhan lab leak theory as 'extremely unlikely'

Share 0 The World Health Organization has ruled out a laboratory accident as the cause of the coronavirus pandemic, saying it was "extremely unlikely" that the pathogen leaked from a Chinese laboratory. A WHO scientific team has spent the past few weeks in Wuhan in an attempt to learn more about the origins of the virus, including a visit to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Some have speculated the Sars-Cov-2 virus that caused Covid-19 may have leaked from the WIV, the country's highest level biosafety laboratory. Peter Ben Embarek, head of a WHO team, told reporters on Tuesday that they…