Covid ‘Patient Zero’ may have been a Wuhan lab worker, WHO chief claims

"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." Related links: Nurse in Germany suspected of replacing Covid vaccinations with saline solution ‘I faked a Covid test to cheat my way into a nightclub’ Trump sued for $22m for calling Covid ‘China flu’ He did go on to say that the WHO team found no direct evidence that the virus was linked to bat research being conducted at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Most specialists and experts do not think a lab leak is the likely source of Covid-19, but the origin of the virus remains up for debate. China has consistently dismissed the lab leak theory, with the director of the biosafety lab at the Wuhan Institute of Virology saying that they had not stored or studied the new coronavirus before the outbreak. In June he said: "I want to emphasise that .... the Wuhan Institute of Virology has never designed, made or leaked the novel coronavirus."