世界卫生组织（WHO）赴中国专家小组在武汉与中国展开联合调查后，就新冠病毒的起源、华南海鲜市场、蝙蝠的作用以及武汉病毒研究所“泄漏病毒”等问题公布了调查结论和结果。 A panel of scientists from the World Health Organization (WHO) arrived in Wuhan on January 15, 2021, to cooperate with their Chinese peers in discovering the potential origins of coronavirus.The WHO panel released the investigative results. The panel has defended the credibility of its work. 世卫专家组的英国专家约翰·沃森14日接受外媒采访时表示，“关于病毒起源有很多种假设，最有可能的一种是病毒通过中间动物宿主传播给人类。”当被问及“是否确定病毒是在中国出现”时，沃森给予否认。他表示，“病毒从动物传播到人类的这一过程并不一定发生在中国。”沃森还称，“世卫专家组的武汉考察只是整个调查过程的开始……溯源调查要花费数月甚至数年才能完成。”Professor John Watson: Coronavirus infecting humans through intermediate animal host "probable" / BBC Prof John Watson said that the trip to Wuhan was only a start, and more research would be conducted.He also said many hypotheses remain about the origins of the virus, the most likely of which is that it was infected by one animal to an intermediate animal host and from there to humans.WHO scientist thought COVID-19 might not have emerged in Wuhan and suggested should look "beyond China's borders" for origins of coronavirus. 此外，新冠病毒溯源研究联合专家组外方组长彼得·本·安巴雷克表示，联合专家组在病毒样本中发现了13种不同的病毒基因序列，但安巴雷克拒绝就“发现13种基因序列可能意味着什么”盲目下结论。The lead investigator for the WHO mission, Peter Ben Embarek, said that the team was able to gather 13 different genetic sequences of the SARS-COV-2 virus. But he declined to jump to the clues of what behind the sequences. Peter Ben Embarek (center) and Marion Koopmans (right) say farewell to their Chinese counterpart Liang Wannian (left) after February 9 press conference to discuss the findings of a joint investigation into the pandemic's origins. / AP此外，安巴雷克还接受了美国学术期刊《科学》杂志采访。在被问到“为什么认为病毒从实验室泄漏极不可能”时，他表示专家组看到的以及讨论的内容给了他们作出这一评估“更大的信心”，专家组一致认为这是不太可能的情况。他还表示，未来几周或几月，世卫专家组不会就这一点进行进一步调查。During the press conference, WHO program manager and mission leader Peter Ben Embarek praised China's cooperation during the 4-week investigation. They said it was "extremely unlikely" that SARS-CoV-2 originated in a Chinese laboratory and said the team would not investigate that hypothesis further. 推荐阅读：