US diplomats warned White House of dangerous testing labs in Wuhan two years ago

14 April 2020, 8:50 pm

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US diplomats sent two official cables to Washington in 2018, warning of “risky studies” being carried out on bats at a Chinese laboratory in Wuhan, The Washington Post reports.

“The cables have fueled discussions inside the US government about whether this or another Wuhan lab was the source of the virus — even though conclusive proof has yet to emerge,” the paper reports.

This is not to say that there’s evidence that the coronavirus was engineered, but it still may have come from a lab, which spent years testing bat coronaviruses in animals, University of California at Berkeley scientist Xiao Qiang tells the Post.