China's 'Bat Woman' Rebukes Trump, Denies Virus Link to Lab [View all]
China’s “bat woman” lashed out at Donald Trump, saying the U.S. president owes her country an apology as she again denied assertions that the novel coronavirus is linked to the Wuhan lab where she works.
Shi Zhengli, deputy director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, said in an interview published in Science magazine that she and her colleagues encountered the virus in December last year, when reports of the disease first emerged in the city. She said the lab hadn’t seen or studied the virus before that.
“U.S. President Trump’s claim that SARS-CoV-2 was leaked from our institute totally contradicts the facts,” Shi said in the article published July 24. “It jeopardizes and affects our academic work and personal life. He owes us an apology.”
The question of the coronavirus’s origin has become an increasingly politicized issue as relations between the U.S. and China deteriorate. Trump, who has repeatedly referred to Covid-19 as the “China Virus,” and U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo have suggested a link between the Wuhan lab and the outbreak, although no evidence has ever been presented publicly.
Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-28/china-s-bat-woman-rebukes-trump-denies-virus-link-to-lab
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