Covid origins: WHO says no new data available to suggest Wuhan lab was source of virus

Among key recommendations are that further studies are needed on humans, animals and the environment in China and around the world.

Gaps in understanding how the covid-19 pandemic started in China remain with current evidence pointing towards animal-to-human spread, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said in a first report on possible origins of the pandemic.

No new data has yet been made available to study a laboratory in the city of Wuhan as a potential source, the WHO Scientific Advisory Group for the Origins of Novel Pathogens (SAGO) preliminary report, states.