Do claims the coronavirus spread to China via frozen food merit serious investigation? | South China Morning Post

Chinese health officials have called for an investigation into whether Covid-19 could have arrived in the country via frozen food , a theory that has prompted widespread international scepticism as Beijing faces mounting pressure to do more to help find the origins of the pandemic. Beijing recently rejected a World Health Organization plan for further investigations, which included exploring the theory that the virus could have escaped from a laboratory in Wuhan that was studying bat coronaviruses. Chinese officials have insisted it could not have escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology, calling instead for the focus to shift elsewhere,…