Chinese scientist at centre of COVID-19 controversy denies lab leak theory

Chinese scientist at centre of COVID-19 controversy denies lab leak theory Channel NewsAsia | Jun 15, 2021 at 3:47 AM The Chinese scientist at the centre of theories that the coronavirus pandemic originated with a leak from her specialised lab in the city of Wuhan has denied her institution was to blame for the health disaster. The leak hypothesis had been floated earlier during the global outbreak, including by Biden's predecessor Donald Trump, but was widely dismissed as a conspiracy theory. In 2017 Shi and her colleagues at the Wuhan laboratory published a report on an experiment "in which they…