Wuhan Lab at Centre of Covid Claims ‘Worked on a Shoestring Budget’ With Scientists ‘Under Huge Pressure to Meet Deadlines’
This aerial view shows the P4 laboratory (centre L) on the campus of the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on May 27, 2020. - Opened in 2018, the P4 lab conducts research on the world's most dangerous diseases and has been accused by some top US officials of being the source of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. China's foreign minister on May 24 said the country was "open" to international cooperation to identify the source of the disease, but any investigation must be led by the World Health Organization and "free of political interference". (Photo by Hector RETAMAL / AFP) (Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL/AFP via Getty Images)
11/2/2022
Wuhan Lab at Centre of Covid Claims ‘Worked on a Shoestring Budget’ With Scientists ‘Under Huge Pressure to Meet Deadlines’ – and May Have Had a Broken Air Filter Just Before Pandemic Began
Faulty equipment, a shoestring budget, and a ‘doom loop of pressure’ at a Covid lab in Wuhan could have contributed to a virus escaping right before the pandemic began, experts have said.
Staff at the Wuhan Institute of Virology appear to have struggled with corroded tools and may have broken an air filter just before Covid first began infecting humans, according to analysis drawn from evidence gathered in a new US Senate report.
The experts pointed to worrying messages and patterns of behaviour suggesting ongoing problems and then a sudden crisis at the Wuhan lab in November 2019, though they could not conclusively prove a leak had occurred.
Senators have concluded that the ‘lab leak’ theory of Covid’s origins is now the ‘most likely’ explanation and the idea that it jumped from animals into humans- an idea backed by Beijing – ‘no longer deserves the benefit of the doubt’.
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