COVID-19 origins probe should shift to U.S., says China disease expert
The Hindu
‘All bio-weapons related subjects that the country has should be subject to scrutiny’, says Zeng Guang
senior Chinese epidemiologist said the United States should be the priority inthe next phase of investigations into the after a study showed the disease could have been circulating there as early as December 2019, state media said on Thursday. The study, published this week by the U.S. National Institutes for Health (NIH), showed that at least seven people in five U.S. states were infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, weeks before the United States reported its first official cases. A China-World Health Organization (WHO) joint study published in March said COVID-19 most likely , with the virus passing into humans from bats via an intermediary species.More Related News