A laboratory worker in Taiwan has caught a disease after being bitten by a mouse.
Taiwan's health officials are still trying to determine if she caught the virus from the bite of a rat or from another animal. There has been no community transmission of COVID-19 in Taiwan for over a month.
The health minister said that the possibility of infections from the workplace is higher because there are no confirmed infections in the community.
The animal was part of an experiment at the leading research institute in Taiwan. The woman was bitten by a mouse twice and tested positive for the Delta variant of COVID-19.
The woman traveled by bus and trains despite feeling unwell and went shopping before testing positive, according to The Times.
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence believes that a lab accident at the WIV in China could be the cause of the Pandemic.
The credibility of the lab leak theory will be added to if it is confirmed that the Taiwanese researcher caught COVID-19 due to the bite of a rat.
He told The Times that there was no progress on the origins probe for COVID-19, with no progress on whether the outbreak was the result of a natural spillover from animals or a lab leak.
