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Updated: Feb 11, 2021, 10:03 PM IST

Lab Leak theory dismissed by WHO team probing COVID-19 origin in China

A team of World Health Organization (WHO) which is investigating the origins of coronavirus in Wuhan has dismissed the theory of 'lab leak'. Peter Ben Embarek, the Danish WHO food safety expert stated that four hypotheses on how the virus spread but reiterated that the "laboratory incident hypothesis is extremely unlikely to explain the introduction of the virus into the human population".

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A team of World Health Organization (WHO) which is investigating the origins of coronavirus in Wuhan has dismissed the theory of 'lab leak'. Peter Ben Embarek, the Danish WHO food safety expert stated that four hypotheses on how the virus spread but reiterated that the "laboratory incident hypothesis is extremely unlikely to explain the introduction of the virus into the human population".

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