By Bill Gertz
The Washington Times
March 30, 2021
A team of international virus experts working with Chinese counterparts failed to pinpoint the origin of the coronavirus pandemic during a visit to China, amid mounting questions into whether the virus escaped from a Wuhan lab that the researchers dismissed as “highly unlikely.”
“At the end of the day, we didn’t find anything, but this is only a first set of studies,” said World Health Organization team leader Peter Ben Embarek in releasing the report at a press conference in Geneva.
Questions about whether the COVID-19 coronavirus leaked from a Wuhan laboratory dominated the press conference even though the joint WHO-Chinese report listed that theory as at the least plausible of four scenarios it examined.