A top Chinese virologist says that a lab leak scenario should not be discounted as a possible origin of COVID-19.
George Gao, the former director of China’s Center for Disease Control and Protection, told the BBC that another branch of the Chinese government had investigated the lab leak theory for COVID-19.He was interviewed for a recent episode of the BBC podcast “Fever: The Hunt for Covid’s Origin.” As a former head of China’s CDC, Mr. Gao played a lead role in assessing COVID-19’s origin and Beijing’s response.
According to the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the scientific evidence suggests the coronavirus likely resulted from viral evolution in nature and jumped to people or through some unidentified animal host. But a report from the U.S. Department of Energy this year concluded that a leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which studies coronaviruses, is the most likely cause of the spread of COVID-19.
Mr. Gao said he believed the lab was given a clean bill of health following the official investigation.
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