The World Health Organization has ruled out a laboratory accident as the cause of the coronavirus pandemic, saying it was “extremely unlikely” that the pathogen leaked from a Chinese facility.
A WHO scientific team has spent the past few weeks in Wuhan to learn more about the origins of the virus. It has also visited the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which has been the subject of unfounded allegations that the Sars-Cov-2 virus that caused Covid-19 may have leaked from its biosafety laboratory.
Peter Ben Embarek, head of the visiting WHO team, said it had appraised various hypotheses and concluded the evidence weighed against the virology institute or another of the Chinese city’s labs being the source.
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