The chance that COVID-19 originated from a laboratory can’t be ruled out, the former head of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC) said.
George Gao, who headed China CDC during the COVID-19 pandemic, also claimed Chinese officials have investigated the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) to find out whether SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, was leaked from the lab.
He claimed experts had found no “wrongdoing” in the lab, but gave scant details of the search.
According to BBC Radio 4, Gao said “you can always suspect anything” regarding the possible origin of SARS-CoV-2. “That’s science. Don’t rule out anything,” he said….