British WHO scientist dismisses Wuhan lab Covid leak claims as 'conspiracy theories'


Source: telegraph.co.uk telegraph.co.uk

Key Topics in this News Article:

News Snapshot:

A British scientist who took part in a World Health Organisation mission to investigate whether Covid leaked from a Wuhan laboratory has suggested that China had been “misunderstood” over its refusal to address growing suspicions about the origins of the disease. Dr Peter Daszak said he sympathised with the Chinese government for refusing to give “oxygen” to “conspiracy theories”, and cast doubt on US intelligence suggesting that three workers at the Wuhan lab fell ill shortly before the first recorded case of Covid-19. It comes after Joe Biden, the US president, ordered his officials to redouble their efforts to investigate...