WHO just finished investigating whether the coronavirus escaped from a Wuhan lab

[Chris Smith]

• The World Health Organization sent a team of experts to Wuhan to investigate the origins of the novel coronavirus pandemic, and it has wrapped up the official investigation.
• Investigators concluded that the likeliest explanation for the pandemic is an infection from an unidentified animal.
• The WHO said that the hypothesis that the virus escaped accidentally from a lab in Wuhan lab “extremely unlikely” and will not be investigated in future studies.

The joint coronavirus investigation between the World Health Organization (WHO) and China has reached its end after a team of international experts finally visited Wuhan in search of the pandemic’s origin. The formal investigation came more than a year after the first COVID-19 cases were discovered in Wuhan, and the first conclusions seem to confirm what was suspected before the team’s venture in China. The likeliest explanation for the pandemic is an unknown animal that passed the virus to humans. But WHO experts seemed to be categorical about the scenario that many conspiracy theories fans favored.

From the early days of the pandemic, conspiracy theories went viral online claiming that the virus had either been manufactured in a Wuhan lab or accidentally escaped from it. In his last days in office, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo reignited the idea that the virus had leaked from a lab, just as the WHO investigation was underway. The WHO team now says the hypothesis that the virus emerged from a lab is unlikely, going as far as to state that the possibility won't even be entertained in future investigations.

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