China’s ‘bat woman’ rebukes Donald Trump and demands apology
‘Trump’s claim that SARS-CoV-2 was leaked from our institute totally contradicts the facts,’ says Shi Zhengli from the Wuhan Institute of Virology
28 July 2020 - 11:12
Tokyo — China’s “bat woman” lashed out at Donald Trump, saying the US president owes her country an apology as she again denied assertions that the novel coronavirus is linked to the Wuhan lab where she works.
Shi Zhengli, deputy director of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, said in an interview published in Science magazine that she and her colleagues encountered the virus in December last year, when reports of the disease first emerged in the city. She said the lab hadn’t seen or studied the virus before that...
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