The Chinese government rejected a new World Health Organization (WHO) plan to study the origins of COVID-19 because it dismissed as rumor any theory that leaked from a China lab. WHO Chiefe, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has announced he will be revisiting the laboratories in Wuhan, China and call for greater transparency. Previous investigations with work from WHO have found it “extremely unlikely” that the virus had escaped from this lab before being identified.
The United States and some allies claim China has not been forthcoming about details of the early days of the pandemic. Former Vice President Mike Pence, who led President Donald Trump’s virus response team last week claimed evidence strongly suggests that the coronavirus “leapt out of the Chinese lab.”