Covid Patient Zero may have been a Wuhan lab worker infected by a bat after all, WHO chief admits | Daily Mail Online

The world’s first Covid-19 patient may have been infected by a bat while working for a Wuhan lab in China , a World Health Organization chief has admitted. Dr Peter Embarek, who led the WHO probe into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic in China, made the shocking claim despite initially dismissing the notion that the virus escaped from a lab as extremely unlikely. Now, Embarek has admitted that the lab leak theory could have happened, suggesting that a Chinese researcher could have been infected by a bat while taking samples in connection with research at a Wuhan lab. Embarek…