A day after top US coronavirus advisor, Dr. Anthony Fauci’s emails were disclosed to the press about coronavirus being leaked from the Wuhan laboratory, China on Friday, brushed aside the claims that Wuhan lab theory was a mere hypothesis and called it a conspiracy.
Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mr. Wang Wenbin briefed the press on Friday said that Francis S Collins who is the Director of the US National Institutes of Health wrote to several heads of the US research institutions, including Dr. Fauci that one cannot rely on the theory that the coronavirus was leaked from a lab and that it was a far-stretched hypothesis.
Wang on the issue of virus origin-tracing said that many experts have made rational, scientific, objective, and impartial voices in the international community. A WHO international expert group member Peter Daszak who is also the President of a non-profit non-governmental organization, EcoHealth Alliance said that one cannot claim that the virus was created in a lab and that there is no evidence that it ever resided in a lab.
Wang also said that he hoped that those spreading the rumors of the lab leak theory would consider the rational, scientific approaches by the international community of researchers.
Also, according to the statement of the Wuhan Institute of Virology that the lab was not exposed to SARS-CoV-2 before 30TH December 2019 and the infection record of the virus on its staff members and graduate students was zero so far. Also, in the month of January, the China-WHO joint mission made several field trips to institutions such as the Wuhan Centre for Disease Control, Wuhan Institute of Virology, etc. and had an in-depth visit over there alongside making candid conversations with the experts over there and found that the hypothesis of a lab leak was highly “unlikely”, quoted Wang. The controversy was pushed aside by the experts last year and they said there was no evidence supporting the claim.
But in recent days, the theory is once again sparking debate and this came in the light of inconclusive international probe into the virus’ origins.
