Covid-19 may have taken 'convoluted path' to Wuhan, says WHO team leader

Unlikely to have leaked from lab; origins point to bats, says investigating team

Bats remain a likely source of the origin of the Covid-19 virus. Transmission of the virus via frozen food is a possibility that warrants further investigation. A laboratory leak is, however, ruled out. This is some of the new information uncovered by the World Health Organization-led team probing the origins of Covid-19.

Peter Ben Embarek, who led the team of independent experts in its nearly month-long visit to the Chinese city of Wuhan where the outbreak first emerged at a seafood market in late 2019, said the team’s work had uncovered new information but not dramatically changed their picture of the