Wuhan Lab Denies It Was Studying COVID-19 Strain
The Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) admits to having three live strains of bat coronavirus, but it denies having the strain of SARS-CoV-2 – labeled COVID-19 – that has caused the global coronavirus pandemic, the New York Post reported.
"Now we have three strains of live viruses," WIV Director Yanyi Wang told Agence France-Presse (AFP), maintaining they have "isolated and obtained some coronaviruses from bats."
"But their highest similarity to SARS-CoV-2 only reaches 79.8 percent," Yanyi added. "It's an obvious difference."
Wang was rejecting claims by President Donald Trump and...