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WHO panel favors natural origin of COVID-19 virus but decries missing evidence

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New report doesn’t rule out that SARS-CoV-2 leaked from a lab in China, but says evidence for scenario remains “speculation”

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“All (four) hypotheses are kept on the table, including a zoonotic transmission (from animals to man) or a laboratory leak,” said Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. WHO reiterates: the laboratory leak as the origin of Covid-19 cannot be ruled out. It criticizes China for the lack of data preventing a definitive conclusion on the pandemic.

A scientific advisory group of the World Health Organization (WHO) released a report on the origin of COVID-19 (new coronavirus, also known as the CCP virus) on Friday (June 27). The report concluded that the possibility of laboratory leakage was ruled out. The CCP continues to obstruct the international community from investigating the origin of the new coronavirus.

The hypothesis that Covid-19 originated from a leak in a laboratory remains an option, said on Friday (27.06.2025) the Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, when the report of the group of experts that since 2021 studies the origins of this pandemic was published. "All hypotheses are kept on the table, including a zoonotic transmission (from animals to man) and a laboratory leak," he said at a press…

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Science broke the news in on Friday, June 27, 2025.
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