Top Chinese Scientist Says Covid Virus Leak From Laboratory Is Possible
The possibility the covid virus leaked from a laboratory should not be ruled out, a former Top Chinese government scientist has told BBC news.
As head of china’s Centre for Disease Control (CDC), prof George Gao played a key role in the pandemic response and efforts to trace its origins.
China’s government dismisses any suggestion the disease may have originated in a Wuhan laboratory.
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A world-leading virologist and immunologist, prof Gao,
Now vice-president of the national natural science foundation of china after retiring from the CDC last year.
Prof gao also tells the bbc some kind of formal investigation into the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) was carried out.