https://www.newsmax.com/world/globaltalk/who-bat-virus-infected/2021/08/12/id/1032144/
The world’s first COVID-19 patient may have been infected by a bat while working in the Wuhan Institute of Virology, says top World Health Organization official Dr. Peter Embarek, who led the WHO probe into the origins of the coronavirus pandemic in China.
“An employee who was infected in the field by taking samples falls under one of the probable hypotheses,” Embarek told Danish television station TV2 in a documentary on the pandemic.
“This is where the virus jumps directly from a bat to a human.
“In that case, it would then be a laboratory worker instead of a random villager or other person who has regular contact with bats. So, it is actually in the probable category.”
Embarek said when the WHO team visited the Wuhan lab, investigators were not allowed to look at laboratory books or documents “directly from the laboratory.”
“We got a presentation, and then we talked about and asked the questions we wanted to ask, but we did not get to look at any documentation at all,” he told TV2.
He also said it was “interesting” that the lab moved in December 2019 just a hundred yards from the wet market where scientists found the first cluster of cases.
“This is the period when it all started, and you know what when you move a laboratory, it is disruptive to everything,” he said.
“You also have to move the virus collection, sample collection and other collections from one place to another.