Explained: What if the Covid-19 virus was leaked from a laboratory

A paper published by the WHO on March 30, 2021 claimed manmade origin of the virus was "extremely unlikely". This view is now being challenged

The first cases of Covid-19 appeared in Wuhan, China, at the Huanan Seafood Market in late 2019. A year-and-a-half later, the origins of the virus that has led to a pandemic and how it became capable of infecting humans remain a mystery. This is a zoonotic virus, which originated in bats and likely jumped species to arrive as infected frozen meat via the “cold chain” at the Huanan Seafood Market. From there, it jumped to humans. This was the hypothesis in a paper published by the WHO on March 30, 2021, which claimed manmade origin was “extremely unlikely”. This view