British WHO scientist dismisses Wuhan lab Covid leak claims as 'conspiracy theories'

A British scientist who took part in a World Health Organisation mission to investigate whether Covid leaked from a Wuhan laboratory has suggested that China had been "misunderstood" over its refusal to address growing suspicions about the origins of the disease. Dr Peter Daszak said he sympathised with the Chinese government for refusing to give "oxygen" to "conspiracy theories", and cast doubt on US intelligence suggesting that three workers at the Wuhan lab fell ill shortly before the first recorded case of Covid-19. It comes after Joe Biden, the US president, ordered his officials to redouble their efforts to investigate…