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Conspiracy crushed as Covid-19 virus 'extremely unlikely' to be from laboratory incident, WHO finds

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direct to your inboxThe virus which causes Covid-19 is “extremely unlikely” to have entered the human population as a result of a laboratory-related incident, global health leaders have said.Sars-CoV-2 “may have originated from zoonotic transmission”, a team of experts from China and the World Health Organisation (WHO) concluded.This means it leapt from animal host to human.But the “reservoir hosts” remain to be identified, they told a press conference.Some conspiracy theorists have falsely claimed that the virus escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan, China.

But the researchers have debunked this flawed theory.Dr Peter Ben Embarek, leader of the WHO team investigating the origins of the virus in Wuhan, said: “The findings suggest lab incident.

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