Members of a WHO-led team have been looking for clues about the origins of COVID-19 for nearly a month of meetings and site visits in the Chinese city of Wuhan, where the disease was first identified.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday asserted that the recent Wuhan investigation has uncovered new information but has not dramatically changed the picture of COVID-19 outbreak, as reported by news agency Reuters.
WHO’s Peter Ben Embarek said that the team did not find evidence of large outbreaks that could be related to COVID-19 prior to December 2019 in Wuhan or anywhere else, reported Reuters. Embarek added that the team found evidence of wider circulation outside the Wuhan Huanan market in December 2019.
Another WHO expert said that the coronavirus leak from Chinese lab was unlikely, most probably jumped to human via intermediary species.
