WHO Releases Report On Covid-19 Origins

US theory: Washington has touted claims that the virus could have leaked out of the high-security Wuhan Institute of Virology, pictured last month

Daily Mail: WHO dismiss their own whitewash report into Covid-19 origins: Health chief admits China withheld data – as US leads 14 nations signing statement 'expressing concerns' and demanding Beijing provides 'full access'

* Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus accused China of withholding data from WHO

* Both Donald Trump and Joe Biden's top diplomats have rejected report as biased

* 120-page report dismisses Washington's lab-leak theory as 'extremely unlikely'

* It says Beijing's favoured food-imports theory is 'possible', although unlikely

* A statement by the United States, Britain and twelve others jointly voiced their concerns and urged China to provide 'full access' to health experts

The head of the WHO today dismissed his own agency's expert report into the origins of Covid-19 which the US has rejected as a political whitewash after it described the lab-leak theory touted by Washington as 'extremely unlikely'.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus accused China of withholding data from a WHO panel and said the lab-leak theory should be studied further, only moments after the publication of the long-awaited report which rejected the idea altogether.

'Although the team has concluded that a laboratory leak is the least likely hypothesis, this requires further investigation,' said Tedros.

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