The New York Post reported that Covid was leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), a state-run and funded research facility, two years ago, citing a statement in the British newspaper The Sun by US-based researcher Andrew Huff.
A US-based scientist who worked at a controversial research lab in China's Wuhan has stated that COVID-19 was a "man-made virus" that leaked from the facility.
The New York Post reported that Covid was leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), a state-run and funded research facility, two years ago, citing a statement in the British newspaper The Sun by US-based researcher Andrew Huff.
Huff claims in his latest book, "The Truth About Wuhan," that the pandemic was caused by the US government's funding of coronaviruses in China. The UK tabloid The Sun published excerpts from Huff's book.
Mr. Huff is a former vice president of the EcoHealth Alliance, a non-profit organisation based in New York that studies infectious diseases, according to the New York Post.According to the New York Post, Mr. Huff claims in his book that China's gain-of-function experiments were conducted with inadequate security, resulting in a leak at the Wuhan lab.
The Wuhan lab has been the site of heated debates about the virus's origins, with both Chinese government officials and lab employees denying that the virus originated there."Foreign laboratories lacked adequate control measures to ensure proper biosafety, biosecurity, and risk management, resulting in the lab leak at the Wuhan Institute of Virology," Andrew Huff wrote in his book.
The organisation has been studying several coronaviruses in bats for more than a decade, with funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and has developed close ties with the Wuhan lab.The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the primary US government agency in charge of biomedical and public health research.
Mr Huff, who worked at EcoHealth Alliance from 2014 to 2016, stated that the non-profit helped the Wuhan lab develop the "best existing methods to engineer bat coronaviruses to attack other species" for many years."China knew this was a genetically engineered agent from the start," Huff wrote. "The transfer of dangerous biotechnology to the Chinese is the fault of the US government."
"What I saw terrified me," he told The Sun, according to The New York Post. "All we were doing was handing them bioweapon technology."
The Post also reports that, according to a recent ProPublica/Vanity Fair investigation, the WIV is home to China's most dangerous coronavirus research.Despite a lack of resources, the ruling Chinese Communist Party has put enormous pressure on this research institute to produce scientific breakthroughs in order to raise its global status.
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