Also, to the fury of critics, he is heading a task force on the pandemic’s origins for The Lancet medical journal. Virologist Shi Zheng-li, left, works with her colleague in the P4 lab of Wuhan Institute of Virology. On March 5, another participant questioned whether evidence in strains of the virus ‘suggested this is engineered’. The WHO’s team investigating the pandemic’s origins is expected to travel to China next month, more than a year after the virus emerged in Wuhan. It also challenged claims the disease originated in a Wuhan wildlife market, which was ruled out later that month by Beijing.

Source: Daily Mail December 19, 2020 22:02 UTC