Geneva: The WHO team probing the coronavirus origin in China are planning to scrap interim report on the finding of the dreaded disease.
A Wall Street Journal report said a group of two dozen scientists have called for an international inquiry into the matter. They said that the WHO team, which had last month completed a mission to Wuhan, are not equipped with sufficient access to adequately investigate possible sources of the virus that includes slipping of the same from a laboratory.
This has surfaced after a team of WHO experts had said that there is no evidence of coronavirus circulation in any animal species in China.
During a press conference, Peter Ben Embarek, the head of the WHO mission in Wuhan, stated four hypotheses on how the virus spread but reiterated that “laboratory incident hypothesis is extremely unlikely to explain the introduction of the virus into the human population”.
He said it was difficult to ascertain any animal species as a potential reservoir for this disease. He further said that “four main hypotheses or groups of hypotheses” have been identified on how the COVID-19 virus might have introduced among humans.
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