Wuhan Researchers Fell Sick Before Outbreak, China Systematically Prevented COVID-19 Probe: US State Department

The United States state department on January 15 released a "fact sheet" on activities at the Institute of Virology in China’s Wuhan, saying researchers fell sick before the outbreak and the Chinese authorities systematically blocked the investigation into the origin to the COVID-19 pandemic. The capital of central China’s Hubei province, Wuhan is where the novel coronavirus outbreak was first reported in late 2019. In the statement, the outgoing Donald Trump administration claimed that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) had "systematically prevented a transparent and thorough" investigation of the origins of COVID-19, the infectious disease caused by the novel coronavirus….