The lab is likely the most credible source of the virus

ate given its academic credentials and its links to similar institutions in the US, Canada, and France. To talk here of a biological weapons lab creates a sinister conspiratorial edge to a story which is about possible human error, not a deliberate act of war against the world community.

Still, there are questions to be answered given the whole mysterious bat cave incident seven years ago, and the remarkable coincidences involved in Wuhan being the epicentre of this latest coronavirus pandemic. By now, though, it's fairly certain that the Chinese will have destroyed any evidence which might provide a link, and the WHO have no interest in that line of enquiry anyway…