WHO report says animals likely source of COVID: AP

A draft copy of long-awaited WHO study into COVID origins says lab leak ‘extremely unlikely’, The Associated Press reports.

A joint WHO-China study on the origins of COVID-19 says that transmission of the virus from bats to humans through another animal is the most likely scenario and that a lab leak is “extremely unlikely,” according to a draft copy obtained by The Associated Press. The findings were largely as expected and left many questions unanswered, but the report provided in-depth detail on the reasoning behind the team’s conclusions. The authors proposed further research in every area except the lab leak hypothesis.