The World health Organization will lead a mission to China next month to investigate the source of the New Coronavirus outbreak. Shi Zhengli, a researcher at the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research who has been questioned for leaking the New Coronavirus, said she welcomed the WHO team to visit the institute, but she could not decide on a specific program.
The BBC quoted Shi as reporting Wednesday that she had communicated with WHO experts twice and made it clear they were welcome to visit the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research. But when asked if that meant the formal investigation would include giving the experts access to laboratory data and records, Shi said she welcomed an open, transparent, trusting, reliable and reasonable approach to dialogue, but that it was not up to her to decide on a specific program.
The media outlet then received a call from the Wuhan Institute of Virus Research’s publicity office saying that Shi Zhengli was speaking in her personal capacity and that her answers had not been approved by the institute, the report added.
Shi Zhengli has long studied the coronavirus carried by bats and was the first expert in China to isolate the new coronavirus. After this outbreak, some public opinion speculated that the new coronavirus was leaked by the same institute where she works.
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