Categories: HealthLive Update

WHO dismisses claims COVID-19 originated from Wuhan lab

The World Health Organisation, WHO has provided more insight into the origin of the raging coronavirus, dismissing earlier speculations that it started in a laboratory in Wuhan, China.

According to the UN health agency, the virus is unlikely to have originated from a Chinese lab.

This, it stated, after its team visited Wuhan earlier believed to have been the source. Reports say the team said the virus possibly got to humans from bats, through an intermediary animal.

The WHO team, reports add, ended their mission to China today, Tuesday, after spending several weeks in the country.

During their stay there, they are said to have visited various sites in Wuhan, where the virus was first detected.

Mimi Mefo Info (MMI)

Recent Posts

Shot in the Face at 15, Bah Median Still Dreams of Becoming a Doctor

When Median Bah Ekue heard villagers saying she was dead, she could not speak to…

2 days ago

Women Left “in Constant Peril” as Biya Government Breaks Decade-Old Pledge on Violence—Report

A new Human Rights Watch report finds that fifteen years after promising to halve gender-based…

3 days ago

The Resignation That Rewrote a Legacy: One Year On From Issa Tchiroma’s Break With Biya

Today, 25 June, marks exactly one year since Issa Tchiroma Bakary did something Cameroonian politics…

3 days ago

Paul Biya Death Rumours: The Cameroon President Who Keeps “Dying” and Living

Paul Biya has been pronounced dead more times than most leaders are pronounced anything. The…

3 days ago

Mayo-Tsanaga: The Alarm Cry of a Division Battered by Insecurity

Mayo-Tsanaga continues to bear the scars of a security crisis that has dragged on for…

3 days ago