BEIJING, April 19 — The director of a maximum-security laboratory in China's coronavirus ground-zero city of Wuhan has rejected claims that it could be the source of the outbreak, calling it “impossible.” Beijing has come under increasing pressure over transparency in its handling of the...
An aerial view shows the P4 laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province April 17, 2020. — AFP pic
Chinese scientists have said the virus likely jumped from an animal to humans in a market that sold wildlife. None of his staff had been infected, he told the English-language state broadcaster CGTN, adding the “whole institute is carrying out research in different areas related to the coronavirus.” When asked if the research suggested the virus could have come from the institute, Yuan said: “I know it's impossible.”
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