FBI director endorses theory Covid-19 virus may have leaked from Chinese lab
Comments fuel divide within US intelligence community on origins, as Chinese state media warns Elon Musk on pushing Wuhan lab theory
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Coronavirus: WHO says lab leak theory 'unlikely' but cannot identify animal that carried virus
Peter Ben Embarek, a WHO virus expert, also told a press briefing that work to identify the origins of the coronavirus points to a natural reservoir in bats, but it is unlikely that they were in Wuhan, the central Chinese city where the outbreak was discovered in late 2019.
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