The head of the WHO team of experts investigating the origin of the pandemic in Wuhan seems at the moment to reject, judging it not very credible, the thesis of the leak from the laboratory, in his opinion only an "excellent subject" for a film or a TV series .
"If we start following and chasing ghosts here and there, we will never go anywhere," Peter Ben Embarek said in an AFP interview, however promising to "follow the science and the facts" to draw a conclusion. definitive on the origin of the pandemic.
The team of ten experts visited the Wuhan Institute of Virology yesterday, accused, in particular by former US President Donald Trump, of having released the virus from one of its laboratories, accidentally or not. So far it is the most controversial site visited by the delegation and the passage to the Institute was "important to understand where these stories come from", continued the specialist in food safety, stationed in Beijing for the WHO in the early 2010 .
