British MPs told COVID likely to have started in Wuhan lab

This is due to the fact that an animal host still hasn't been found by scientists nearly two years after the outbreak began. Researchers have been scouring for an animal host since the pandemic started.

One specialist at MIT went one step further, saying that the coronavirus could have been genetically engineered. On Wednesday, they presented their findings to the British House of Commons.

The specialist said that "I think the lab origin is more likely than a natural origin at this point."

"We all agree there was a critical event at the Wuhan seafood market, that was a super spreader event caused by humans, but there’s no evidence pointing to a natural animal origin of the virus at that market."

The other theory of COVID's origin states that it derives from a wet market in Wuhan. The lab leak theory has been constantly dismissed as a conspiracy theory.

"We have to face the fact after two months we knew the origins of SARS, and after a couple of months we knew MERS was though through camels, but after two years we still haven’t found a single infected animal that could be the progenitor, and that’s incredibly surprising," said another scientist.