found were most likely contaminated by infected people an infected person also likely brought and spread the virus at the wuhan market associated with the outbreak where some of the contaminated products were later foundin general all the conditions for the spread of infection were present at this market dedkov said in an interview therefore most likely there was a mass infection of people who were connected by locationat this point there are no facts suggesting that there was a leak from a lab dedkov said if suddenly scientific facts appear from somewhere then accordingly the priority of the version will change but at this particular moment nosuspicions about political meddling have dogged the mission and the international team leader the whos peter ben embarek acknowledged in interviews last week that unspecified pressures might weigh on its members liang in a chinese newspaper interview also bemoaned political pressure on the teamdelays in deploying the international team to china repeated slippage in the timing of publication of the report and rejiggering of the plans for it an initial summary of findings was jettisoned as an idea have only fanned speculation that the scientists have been steered by political authorities or othersthe last understanding we had was that it is expected to come out this week well have to see if that actually happens the us charge daffaires in geneva mark cassayre said on wednesday we have a clear understanding that other studies will be requiredhe said the us was hopeful the report would be a real step forward for the world understanding the origins of the virus so that we can better prepare for future pandemics thats really what this is aboutthe who leadership including directorgeneral tedros adhanom ghebreyesus repeatedly praised the chinese governments early response to the outbreak though recordings of private meetings obtained by the associated press exposed how top who officials were frustrated at chinas lack of cooperationthe international team was wholly reliant on data collected by chinese scientists after the outbreak surfaced and dedkov called the visit to wuhan an analytical trip mainly for the purpose of retrospective analysis in the sense that we studied only those facts that were obtained earlierwe did not collect any samples ourselves we didnt carry out any laboratory studies there we just analyzed what we were being shown he said if some data had not been collected it wasnt because the chinese wanted to conceal something he addedthe teams visit was politically sensitive for china which is concerned about any allegations it didnt handle the initial outbreak properly shortly after the outbreak the chinese government detained some chinese doctors who sought to raise the alarmthe report which ben embarek said last week took up about 280 pages is set to lay out recommendations and lay the groundwork for next steps such as whether the team or others get new access to china for further analysis ultimately the aim is to find clues to help