World Health Organisation admits they STILL have no idea what caused Covid pandemic – but refuses to rule out lab leak
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China's Wuhan lab has been at the centre of the lab leak theory since Covid emerged just miles from the facility
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Staff members line up at attention as they prepare to spray disinfectant at Wuhan Railway Station
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Dr Shi Zhengli - dubbed 'Batwoman' for her research on bat coronaviruses - at the Wuhan Institute of Virology
The Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (Sago) said on Friday that most data suggests the
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But they added: "Nor can it be proven until more information is provided."
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Group chair Marietjie Venter said after three years of investigating, they were unable to come to a certain
They blasted China for not releasing all necessary data to determine Covid's creation - despite hundreds of requests for genetic sequences and biosecurity information to the
She Venter: "Therefore, this hypothesis could not be investigated or excluded.
"It was deemed to be very speculative, based on political opinions and not backed up by science."
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Venter said the 27-member group could not reach a unanimous conclusion on
Three other scientists also asked for their names to be removed from the new report.
I was in Oval Office with Trump at start of pandemic - no one was closer to Chinese officials than me & I believe Covid was engineered in lab
Covid-19 emerged just eight miles from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
Scientists there had been importing and manipulating bat coronaviruses and had been filmed handling animals with inadequate protection.
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Venter added that there was no evidence proving Covid was created in a lab, nor was there any indication it was spreading before December 2019 anywhere outside of China.
She said: "Until more scientific data becomes available, the origins of how SARS-CoV-2 entered human populations will remain inconclusive."
Beijing has consistently refused to release full details about the lab in Wuhan, despite repeated requests for information from multiple countries.
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The P4 laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan
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Covid killed millions worldwide in the pandemic
It comes after The Sun's explosive Covid lab leak
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laid bare the mounting evidence and disturbing questions surrounding the virus's emergence in Wuhan - home to China's most secretive bio-research facility.
In April, the US unveiled a bombshell new
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And in a fresh propaganda push, Beijing insisted "substantial evidence" showed Covid "might have emerged in the United States earlier than its officially-claimed timeline, and earlier than the outbreak in China".
The document - titled Covid-19 Prevention, Control and Origins Tracing: China's Actions and Stance - was released via China's official Xinhua news agency.
It unashamedly accused the US of "indifference and delayed actions" during the global Covid fight - and of scapegoating China to deflect from its own "mismanaged" response.
It wrote: "The US has made China the primary scapegoat for its own mismanaged COVID-19 response."
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The report added that America was 'spreading misinformation' and wasted 'precious time China had secured for the global fight against the pandemic".
It revived Beijing's long-standing claims that it shared information with the world in a "timely manner".
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The paper added: 'The US should not continue to 'pretend to be deaf and dumb', but should respond to the legitimate concerns of the international community.'
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In May Donald Trump banned all US funding for risky virus research in China and beyond, five years after Covid-19 upended the planet.
The US President said in the Oval Office last month: 'I said that right from day one it leaked out — whether it was to the girlfriend or somebody else, [a] scientist walked outside to have lunch with the girlfriend or was together with a lot of people — but that's how it leaked out in my
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