EXPLAINER: Why is the US investigating the origins of the coronavirus?
The move grew out of frustration over restrictions placed on a probe conducted by Chinese and international scientists, organised by the World Health Organization , which resulted in a report in March that said it was extremely unlikely that the virus came from a lab – a theory linked to the Wuhan Institute of Virology’s study of coronaviruses.
Addressing the World Health Assembly weeks later, US Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra called for a phase two of the WHO investigative team’s work, one that would “give international experts the independence to fully assess the source of the virus and the early days of the outbreak”.
Peter Ben Embarek, a programme manager at the WHO specialising in food safety and animal-to-human infectious diseases, told Danish broadcaster TV2 in an interview aired earlier this month that transmission from bats to humans could be considered in the context of four scenarios included in the joint WHO-China report.
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