In a documentary on the Danish public broadcaster TV2, Peter Embarek, the chief of the WHO mission trying to determine the origin of the coronavirus in China, labeled the theory that the virus escaped from a laboratory as “probable”. However, on March 29, the mission concluded that an incident at the Wuhan Virological Institute was “highly unlikely”.
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“A laboratory worker who became infected while taking samples is one of the likely hypotheses,” Embarek said in the documentary ‘The Mystery of the Virus – A Dane’s Quest for the Truth in China’.
Finally, the scientist pointed out that no bats live in the wild in the Wuhan area and that laboratory workers are the only people likely to have come close to the bats suspected of carrying the virus. virus that caused Sars-Cov-2.
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Other conclusion in report
However, according to Embarek, it was difficult to discuss that theory with the Chinese scientists. “Up to 48 hours before the end of the mission, we still hadn’t reached an agreement to include the lab thesis in our report,” the WHO scientist said. As a result of these discussions, the WHO delegation was allowed to visit two labs conducting research on bats.
During those visits, “we got a presentation and then we were able to talk and ask the questions we wanted to ask. But we haven’t had a chance to consult any documentation at all,” Embarek said.
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