WHO scientist puts COVID lab leak theory back under spotlight

The idea that the coronavirus pandemic originated accidentally via Chinese laboratory workers has surfaced again, this time in a documentary aired by Danish TV on Thursday. China has reacted furiously to any suggestions that the pandemic, which has killed at least 4.3 million people since emerging in the city of Wuhan in December 2019, was caused by malpractice involving one of its laboratories. But this is part of the "probable" assumptions, according to the head of the World Health Organization mission investigating the origins of the pandemic. "An employee of the lab gets infected while working in a bat cave…