Bats "very likely" to have passed on COVID-19 to humans through unknown animal: WHO
COVID-19 is “very likely” to have first been passed from bats to humans via another animal, according to the World Health Organisation.
In 2019, the deadly COVID-19 virus broke out in the Chinese city of Wuhan - and humans tried to figure of how the virus originated.
Many suggested that the virus was "developed" in a laboratory.
On Monday, the World Health Organisation (WHO) reported that COVID-19 was very likely passed on to humans by an unknown animal through bats.
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Evidence suggested that Sars-CoV-2 (COVID-19) emerged naturally in bats before passing to humans via an unknown animal host.
According to the report, it is “extremely unlikely” that the virus was leaked from a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan, where COVID-19 first emerged in late 2019.
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