The former head of China’s Centre for Disease Control (CDC) said the theory that the coronavirus which causes Covid-19 may have leaked from a lab should not be ruled out, BBC News reported, in an apparent divergence from the Chinese government’s vocal opposition to any suggestion that the virus may have originated from a lab.
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George Gao, who stepped down as the head of China’s CDC last year, told BBC Radio 4 that no possibility should be ruled out adding, “that’s science.”
Gao also disclosed that the Chinese government “organized something” with regard to investigating the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which proponents of the lab leak theory contend is the likely source of the said leak.
The former health official added that the Wuhan lab was “double-checked by the experts,” and he had “heard” that no issues were found.