London, June 21 (Ians) A top virologist on the Un health body’s panel, Professor Marion Koopmans, has said that the World Health Organization (Who) should never have dismissed the lab leak theory about the origin of the Covid pandemic.
The Who in its initial assessment in 2021 had stated that it was “extremely unlikely” that Covid might have spilled into humans from a lab.
Koopmans, who heads the Department of Viroscience at Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, is one of 12 people investigating the emergence of the pandemic on behalf of Who.
Speaking to the BBC podcast “Fever: The Hunt for Covid’s Origin”, Koopmans said the theory that the virus escaped from a secretive lab in Wuhan could never be ruled out, the Daily Mail reported.
“We shouldn’t have done that,” she added.
A team of experts from the Who spent four weeks in China in January...
The Who in its initial assessment in 2021 had stated that it was “extremely unlikely” that Covid might have spilled into humans from a lab.
Koopmans, who heads the Department of Viroscience at Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, is one of 12 people investigating the emergence of the pandemic on behalf of Who.
Speaking to the BBC podcast “Fever: The Hunt for Covid’s Origin”, Koopmans said the theory that the virus escaped from a secretive lab in Wuhan could never be ruled out, the Daily Mail reported.
“We shouldn’t have done that,” she added.
A team of experts from the Who spent four weeks in China in January...
- 6/21/2023
- by Agency News Desk
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