WHO links COVID-19 source to bats, dismisses Chinese lab theory

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said that COVID-19 might have spread from bats to humans through another animal host.

According to results of a joint WHO-China study into the origins of Covid-19 reported on Bloomberg, authors suggest that the most productive research would be to find such an animal link, saying the hypothesis of lab leaks was extremely unlikely.

The findings mirror what researchers said last month, at the end of their mission to Wuhan, the central Chinese city where the first Covid cases emerged at the end of 2019, and in their subsequent public comments.

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