Wuhan Lab in Debate, Researchers fall sick of Covid-19 in November 2019

U.S. intelligence report had disclosed that three researchers of China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology got sick of Covid-19 virus in November 2019. A fact sheet by the State Department was issued during Trump’s administration. According to the fact sheet, several researchers at the lab, a center for the study of coronaviruses and other pathogens, became sick in autumn 2019 “with symptoms consistent with both Covid-19 and common seasonal illness.”

A National Security Council spokeswoman said that Biden administration continued to have “serious questions about the earliest days of the COVID-19 pandemic, including its origins within the Peoples Republic of China.” “We’re not going to make pronouncements that prejudge an ongoing WHO study into the source of SARS-CoV-2, but we’ve been clear that sound and technically credible theories should be thoroughly evaluated by international experts,” she said.

Concerns about the origins of WHO led Covid-19 study has been raised by The United States, Norway, Canada, Britain and other countries in March. They requested to call for the further investigation and full access to all pertinent humans, animals and other data about the early stages of the outbreak.

On Sunday, China’s foreign ministry noted that a WHO-led team had concluded a lab leak was extremely unlikely after a visit in February to the virology institute. “The U.S. continues to hype the lab leak theory,” the ministry said in response to a request for comment by the Journal. “Is it actually concerned about tracing the source or trying to divert attention?”

According to one of the team’s investigators, Reuters report of February, China has refused to give raw data on early COVID-19 cases to the WHO-led team probing the origins of the pandemic. This potentially complicates the efforts to understand the beginning source of the global pandemic.