A Wuhan laboratory that has faced accusations that its employees manufactured the coronavirus has spoken out denying the claims.
Yuan Zhiming, vice director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, called the accusations a “conspiracy theory” in an interview with Chinese state broadcaster CGTN Saturday.
“As people who carry out viral study, we clearly know what kind of research is going on in the institute and how the institute manages viruses and samples. As we said early on, there is no way this virus came from us,” said Yuan, a microbiology and biotechnology expert.
“We have a strict regulatory regime and code of conduct of research, so we are confident.”
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Yup i believe them
Not
The Chinese have zero credibility I wouldn’t believe anything they say
What’s a Mad’s credibility? Sub-zero.
With such an unenthusiastic denial, I am likely to go beyond the “confirmed reports” claiming that they were studying the virus, and it escaped, and I am leaning towards believing the “conspiracy theory” that it was intentionally manufactured and released.