A “preponderance of evidence” proves that the SARS-CoV-2 virus escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), the Chinese research institute studying bat coronaviruses, concluded a report by US Congressional Republicans, released on Monday.
“As we continue to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic, I believe it’s time to completely dismiss the wet market as the source of the outbreak. Instead, as this report lays out, a preponderance of the evidence proves that all roads lead to the WIV,” Representative Michael McCaul, Lead Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said in a press release.
The report, published ahead of a planned report by the Democratic administration of US President Joe Biden, due to be completed by the end of August, is sure to add a partisan political dimension to the questions hanging over the origins quest. And that, on top of an already charged triangle of tensions between Washington, Beijing and the World Health Organization in Geneva – over how to proceed with the origins investigation after China last month rejected out-of-hand WHO suggestions that that the lab escape theory should be revisited, along with requesting Beijing to supply for more data and information.
Read the full story at Health Policy Watch.
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