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"It might seem small, but after 18 months of complete denial, the very act of [The] Lancet agreeing to publish this letter acknowledging the origins of COVID-19 remains an open verdict,
is a very big deal," Professor Nikolai Petrovsky of Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, one of the signatories, told _Daily Mail_ on Sunday. "For a leading medical journal
like Lancet to agree to finally open its doors to a letter from scientists highlighting the ongoing uncertain origins of COVID-19, indicates how far we have come in 18 months in requesting
an open scientific debate on the topic, but also indicates just how far we still have to go," he added. Further, the new letter also implored China to open up and allow access to proper
investigation. While the first joint World Health Organisation-China Study concluded that the laboratory origin was "extremely unlikely", WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom
Ghebreyesus has declared that all hypotheses remained on the table including that of a laboratory leak.
