The head of the WHO tonight insisted the theory that Covid emerged from a Wuhan lab has not been ruled out - as he said China should help solve the mystery out of 'respect' for the dead. The body's director general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus suggested that Beijing had not cooperated fully as he urged more 'transparency' in the continuing investigation. Pictured, Wuhan in March last yearAsked whether the possibility of a lab leak was still on the table, Dr Tedros told a G7 summit briefing that currently 'every hypothesis should be open'. Dr Tedros suggested there had not been enough 'transparency and cooperation' from China in the initial stages of the investigation. There have been claimed that three researchers at the Wuhan lab were hospitalised with Covid-19-like symptoms in November, a month before China said it discovered the first cases of the virus.

Source: Daily Mail June 12, 2021 18:36 UTC