WHO report sheds new light on origins of COVID-19, says lab leak "extremely unlikely" | FULL

World Health Organization (WHO) officials and international experts held a press conference Tuesday to go through conclusion of the Wuhan report conducted by a WHO-led team in China to trace the origins of the coronavirus.

The report suggested that the virus transmitted to humans from bats through another animal, and said the pandemic being the result of a "lab leak" was extremely unlikely, but still possible since China withheld raw lab data from the team.

The WHO team's leader, Peter Ben Embarek, told a press briefing it was "perfectly possible" the virus had been circulating in November or October 2019 around Wuhan, and so potentially spreading abroad earlier than documented so far.

"We got access to quite a lot of data in many different areas, but of course there were areas where we had difficulties getting down to the raw data and there are many good reasons for that," he said, citing privacy laws and other restrictions.

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