Fess up, Now China Must Come Clean Over Covid ‘Leak’, Mps Warn After US Official Claims ‘Credible Evidence’ It Came From Wuhan Lab
MPS have demanded China come clean after a US official stunningly claimed the "most credible" origin of Covid-19 was a lab leak in Wuhan. Senior Tory MPs Tom Tugendhat and Tobias Ellwood have called on the Government to probe allegations made by Donald Trump's security advisor Matthew Pottinger.
January 4, 2021 | Source: The Sun | by Henry Holloway
MPS have demanded China come clean after a US official stunningly claimed the “most credible” origin of Covid-19 was a lab leak in Wuhan.
Senior Tory MPs Tom Tugendhat and Tobias Ellwood have called on the Government to probe allegations made by Donald Trump’s security advisor Matthew Pottinger.
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China has long denied that the virus – which most scientists agree occurred naturally – may have escaped from its highest security lab, the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
The allegations come almost exactly a year since the virus first emerged in Wuhan just a stone’s throw from the lab – infecting more than 85million people worldwide and killing almost 2million.
Mr Tugendhat, chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, told The Sun Online the allegations are “extremely serious”.