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that theory is viable and deserves a proper investigation.
Meanwhile, Republicans are pressing federal health officials to detail what the Wuhan Institute of Virology did with grant money from the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
On Friday, six GOP senators and one congressman signed a letter to NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins requesting details about a 2014 moratorium on funding so-called gain of function research in which viruses are manipulated in a lab environment to become more transmissible and harmful. The letter also requested more information about the lifting of the moratorium in late 2017 and whether programs and researchers linked to the Wuhan lab were granted exceptions.
U S agencies examine reports of early COVID-19 infections in Wuhan lab
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“The report that you mentioned about three people getting sick, that is not true,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian told a regular briefing Monday in Beijing. Zhao was responding to a Wall Street Journal report that a trio of researchers from the Wuhan Institute of Virology a lab in the central city where the first Covid-19 outbreak was identified had fallen ill and sought hospital care in November 2019.
The facility has previously denied claims of workers getting sick, including a U.S. State Department fact sheet published in January that asserts that several researchers from the institute became sick in autumn 2019. Zhao said the U.S. has been hyping the lab-leak theory.