Fauci calls on China to release Wuhan lab worker records
Ratcheting up further tensions with China, US President Joe Biden's chief medical adviser, Anthony Fauci, has called on Beijing to release the information of the three researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology who were sick around November 2019 and had to be hospitalized.
The Financial Times reported on Friday that in addition to the researchers, six miners got sick in 2012 after entering a bat cave that Wuhan scientists took samples from.Three of the miners had died.
Fauci, the director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases,reportedly wants a full inquiry into China's alleged connection with the COVID-19, saying he is “not convinced” the coronavirus is natural.
“I would like to see the medical records of the three people who are reported to have got sick in 2019,” Fauci said. “Did they really get sick, and if so, what did they get sick with?
“The same with the miners who got ill years ago . . . What do the medical records of those people say? Was there [a] virus in those people? What was it? It is entirely conceivable that the origins of Sars-Cov-2 was in that cave and either started spreading naturally or went through the lab.”
Last month, US President Joe Biden ordered US intelligence officials to “redouble” their efforts to investigate the pandemic's origin and determine whether it came from a lab accident in Wuhan or emerged from human contact with an infected animal.
The theory that the contagion had leaked from the Chinese lab was originally hyped up by, among others, the administration of former US president Donald Trump as part of his hawkish anti-China policies.
Since infecting its first victims in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019, the pandemic has spread to nearly every country across the globe, killing more than 3.4 million people so far.
China also called on the US to give a full clarification on its bio-military activities at home and abroad, a matter of concern shared by Russia and others.
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