{"id":63993,"date":"2020-04-20T02:04:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T02:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=63993"},"modified":"2020-04-20T02:04:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T02:04:00","slug":"director-wuhan-lab-denies-coronavirus-escaped-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=63993","title":{"rendered":"Director of Wuhan lab denies coronavirus escaped from his facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The director of a lab studying the coronavirus in Wuhan \u2014 the Chinese city where the global outbreak is believed to have originated \u2014 denied that the bug accidentally spread from his facility.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no way this virus came from us,\u201d Yuan Zhiming, director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, told state media on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Yuan\u2019s denial came days after a fresh round of reports suggesting the\u00a0novel coronavirus escaped\u00a0from the Wuhan Institute or another similar laboratory miles away in the Chinese city.<\/p>\n<div class=\"e3lan e3lan-in-post1\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"e3lan e3lan-in-post2\"><p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>Adv<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bagfactory.com.hk\/216\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Sun Winning Ind Co<\/strong><\/span><\/a>: Manufacture of Canvas Bag, Recycle Bad in China<\/li>\r\n \t<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ff0000;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theunitravel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TheUniTravel.com<\/a><\/strong><\/span> : Find the latest\u00a0<em>travel<\/em>\u00a0and tourism\u00a0<em>news<\/em>\u00a0from around the world. Stay informed with\u00a0<em>travel news<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>updates<\/em><\/li>\r\n \t\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\n<p>President Trump was asked about the possibility at a White House press briefing last Wednesday and said the\u00a0US was investigating the origins.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore and more we\u2019re hearing the story \u2026 we are doing a very thorough examination of this horrible situation,\u201d the president said.<\/p>\n<p>Two reports \u2014 one by\u00a0Fox News\u00a0and another in the Washington Post \u2014 followed, quoting anonymous sources raising concerns that the virus may have accidentally escaped from the facility.<\/p>\n<p>Yuan admitted that the lab is studying \u201cdifferent areas related to the coronavirus,\u201d but told the English-language state broadcaster CGTN that none of his staff has been infected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs people who carry out viral studies we clearly know what kind of research is going on at the institute and how the institute manages viruses and samples,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said that since the lab is in Wuhan \u201cpeople can\u2019t help but make associations\u201d, but claimed that some media outlets are \u201cdeliberately trying to mislead people\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>But officials in the past have raised concerns over the safety conditions of the Wuhan Institute of Virology.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2018, US science diplomats dispatched to the lab issued two \u201csensitive\u201d diplomatic cables about inadequate safety measures at the lab, the Washington Post reported, citing intelligence sources.<\/p>\n\n<p>The first cable warned the experiments conducted in the lab on coronavirus in bats \u201crepresented a risk of a new SARS-like pandemic,\u201d according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>The cable, written by two US-China embassy officials, said there is a \u201cserious shortage of appropriately trained technicians and investigators needed to safely operate this high-containment laboratory,\u201d according to the report.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The director of a lab studying the coronavirus in Wuhan \u2014 the Chinese city where the global outbreak is believed to have originated \u2014 denied that the bug accidentally spread from his facility. \u201cThere\u2019s no way this virus came from us,\u201d Yuan Zhiming, director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, told state media on Saturday. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[38],"tags":[4083],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.7.1 - 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