WHO Team Says It's Unlikely , COVID-19 Leaked From China Lab .br The international team of scientists with br the World Health Organization (WHO) br traveled to Wuhan, China, in order to br discover the origins of the coronavirus.br They found that the virus likely jumped br from an animal to a human.br This discounts theories that br it was leaked from a lab in Wuhan.br The findings suggest that the laboratory incidents hypothesis is extremely unlikely to explain the introduction of the virus to the br human population, Peter Ben Embarek, WHO, via AP News.br The lab-leak theory was one that was br propagated by former President Donald Trump.br China officials have br rebuked the theory. .br The team of WHO investigators reported that they were br granted a higher level of access than expected br to examine possible locations of the beginning of the outbreak.