Quote:Australia backs WHO’s Wuhan findings on Covid being unlikely to have leaked out of a Wuhan lab
On Tuesday the WHO team that visited Wuhan all but dismissed the lab leakage theory, while giving some credence to China’s focus on the possibility of transmission via frozen food.
The team found no evidence of widespread circulation of the virus in Wuhan prior to December 2019, and said it was still unclear how it got into the Huanan seafood market, where the virus was initially detected.
But, they added, “all the work that has been done on the virus and trying to identify its origin continue to point toward a natural reservoir”.
The idea that the virus came from a laboratory-related incident was “extremely unlikely” and “isn’t a hypothesis we suggest implies further study”, said Peter Ben Embarek, the WHO’s food safety and animal disease specialist and chair of the investigation team.
Asked for further details, Embarek said the team looked at the arguments for and against the hypothesis, and while “accidents do happen … there had been no publication or research of this virus or one close to this virus, anywhere in the world.”
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