{"id":30339,"date":"2021-03-30T01:17:45","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T16:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/29\/covid-probably-passed-humans-bats-via-other-animal-finds-who-report"},"modified":"2021-03-30T01:17:45","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T16:17:45","slug":"covid-probably-passed-to-humans-from-bats-via-other-animal-finds-who-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30339","title":{"rendered":"Covid probably passed to humans from bats via other animal, finds WHO report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Much-delayed report from team that visited Wuhan all but rules out lab leak theory <\/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>Covid-19 probably passed to humans from a bat via an intermediary animal, an international expert <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jan\/12\/who-experts-covid-mission-not-about-finger-pointing-at-china\">mission to China<\/a> has concluded in a report, with investigators all but ruling out a laboratory leak.<\/p>\n<p>The intermediate host hypothesis was deemed \u201clikely to very likely\u201d, while the theory that the virus escaped from a lab was considered \u201cextremely unlikely\u201d, according to a copy of the long-awaited final report seen by AFP on Monday before its official release.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/29\/covid-probably-passed-humans-bats-via-other-animal-finds-who-report\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Much-delayed report from team that visited Wuhan all but rules out lab leak theory Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageCovid-19 probably passed to humans from a bat via an intermediary animal, an international expert mission to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2048,"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":[50,1066,346,914,299,79,1045,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-health","category-infectious-diseases","category-science","category-society","category-world-health-organization","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30339","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\/2048"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30340,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30339\/revisions\/30340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}