Wang Yanyi, an immunologist and director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, was quoted in Chinese state media as saying such claims are 'pure fabrication.'
The director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology has blasted claims pushed by the Trump Administration that the coronavirus pandemic originated at the laboratory.have repeatedly said they suspect the virus
Wang Yanyi, an immunologist and director of the institute, mainland China's first biosafety level 4 laboratory, was quoted in Chinese state media on Saturday as saying such claims are"pure fabrication." Wang said the institute did not have"any knowledge before that nor had we ever met, researched or kept the virus." She added:"In fact, like everyone else, we didn't even know the virus existed, so how could it be leaked from our lab when we never have it?"
And the scientific community has mostly rejected the idea that the virus could have been engineered in a lab.titled"The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2," a team in California led by microbiology professor Kristian Andersen said it was"improbable" that the novel coronavirus emerged through laboratory manipulation of a related coronavirus. It added that"the genetic data irrefutably show that SARS-CoV-2 is not derived from any previously used virus backbone.
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