WHO Adviser Calls for ‘Full and Credible Investigation’ Into CCP Virus Origins

The P4 laboratory (L) on the campus of the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, on May 27, 2020. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images

A World Health Organization (WHO) adviser said there needs to be a “full and credible investigation” on the origins of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus that causes COVID-19 and whether it originated from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, in late 2019.

Atlantic Council senior fellow Jamie Metzl, who is also a WHO adviser, said the CCP appears to be pushing a narrative that the virus started as a zoonotic virus that spread to humans rather than a leak from a top-security virology lab in Wuhan.