The head of the World Health Organization group that investigated the origins of the novel coronavirus says they didn’t get “hard facts or detailed data” on the work done at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Peter Ben Embarek, an expert on animal diseases and food safety, also stressed that he remains skeptical of the lab leak hypothesis but that it is “definitely not off the table.”

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