According to international news outlets such as Reuters, the World Health Organization has indicated that the source of COVID-19 is most likely an animal one, possibly originating from bats, rather than having been manufactured at a laboratory. “All available evidence suggests the virus has an animal origin and is not manipulated or constructed in a lab or somewhere else,” WHO spokeswoman Fadela Chaib stated at a Geneva news briefing. “It is probable, likely, that the virus is of animal origin.” It is also believed that bats could have served as ‘ecological reservoirs’ from which the virus spread to humans although it is still unclear as to how. Last week, US President Donald Trump cut funding to the WHO for mismanagement of the pandemic and alleged cover-ups. The decision would see the prominent NGO lose its largest contributor and approximately 400-500 US$ million per year. The President has probed the emergence of the virus which has infected nearly a million, and killed 45,000 in the US alone. “If it was a mistake, a mistake is a mistake. But if they were knowingly responsible, yeah, I mean, then sure there should be…
