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17 Jun 2021, 10:44 A top Chinese virologist who works at the Wuhan Institute of Virology has spoken out about the much-politicized debate surrounding the origins of COVID-19, strongly denying it has anything to do with her lab. Dr Shi Zhengli, a virologist who directs the Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, recently spoke to the New York Times about the so-called “ lab-leak hypothesis ”, the idea that COVID-19 escaped from her lab in Wuhan. “How on earth can I offer up evidence for something where there is no evidence?” she said. Dr Shi...
