{"id":28131,"date":"2021-02-09T21:35:19","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T12:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/09\/wuhan-laboratory-leak-covid-origin-theory-unlikely-says-who-team"},"modified":"2021-02-09T23:28:45","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T14:28:45","slug":"wuhan-laboratory-leak-covid-origin-theory-unlikely-says-who-team-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28131","title":{"rendered":"WHO team says theory Covid began in Wuhan lab \u2018extremely unlikely\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Theories including virus jumping from animal to human or via frozen food being explored by team in China<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The World Health Organization team that visited Wuhan to investigate the origins of the coronavirus pandemic has all but dismissed a theory that the virus leaked from a laboratory, while giving some credence to China\u2019s focus on the possibility of transmission via frozen food.<\/p>\n<p>In a lengthy press conference on Tuesday, representatives of the joint WHO\/China investigative mission delivered a summary of findings <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/03\/who-investigators-visit-wuhan-lab-at-heart-of-china-covid-19-conspiracy-claims\">from two weeks in the field<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/09\/wuhan-laboratory-leak-covid-origin-theory-unlikely-says-who-team\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theories including virus jumping from animal to human or via frozen food being explored by team in ChinaCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe World Health Organization team that visited Wuhan to investigate the origins of the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,1066,346,914,512,916,299,79,1045,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-health","category-infectious-diseases","category-medical-research","category-microbiology","category-science","category-society","category-world-health-organization","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28131"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28169,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28131\/revisions\/28169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}