World Health Organisation team that includes experts from 10 nations looking into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic visited a food market in Wuhan, two hospitals and the Wuhan Institute of Virology and laboratories at facilities including the Wuhan Center for Disease Control.
A World Health Organisation expert said the coronavirus is unlikely to have leaked from a Chinese lab and most probably jumped to humans via an intermediary species.
WHO food safety and animal diseases expert Peter Ben Embarek made the assessment in a summation of a WHO team’s investigation into the possible origins of the coronavirus in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, where the first cases were discovered in December 2019.
