International health experts have stated that the odds that COVID-19 emerged in Wuhan from imported frozen food are very low, thus questioning one of the key theories China has adopted for the cause of the first COVID-19 outbreak in late 2019.

China has challenged the initial assumption that the virus originated in Wuhan. Scientists from the World Health Organization and China have reported that the chances of a cold-chain contamination with the virus from a reservoir are extremely low, adding that the introduction of the virus into the country through frozen food would have been ‘extraordinary’ in December 2019, considering the fact that it had not been detected anywhere else at that time. The report stated that the odds were high that the virus first passed to humans from a bat through an intermediary animal… (NDTV - Agence France-Presse, March 29, 2021)