Covid-19 lab leak ‘most likely’ cause of the global pandemic, new study shows

Covid-19 most likely originated in a lab, a new study has concluded.

The origin of the pandemic has long been contentious. Some believe the virus was a ‘zoonotic spillover event’ and spread from animals to humans, possibly at the wet market in Wuhan, China, where the disease was first reported.

Others believe it leaked, accidentally or otherwise, from a laboratory – namely the Wuhan Institute of Virology, also in China.

Now, scientists in Australia suggest that Covid-19 is more likely to have had an ‘unnatural’ origin than a ‘natural’ one.