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P4 laboratory on the campus of the Wuhan Institute of Virology has been accused of being the source of the coronavirus pandemic. AFP via The Straits Times/Asia News Network
In an interview with The Straits Times, Dr Soumya Swaminathan, said: “What we do know is that this is a naturally occurring virus, that it was not artificially synthesized in the lab.” Responding to a question on a theory recently proposed by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that the virus came from a sophisticated high security bio lab in Wuhan, Dr Swaminathan said: “I don’t have an opinion on that.
“I hope that there can be some international collaborative effort on this because it will definitely help inform future guidelines and steps that one would need to take to prevent such a thing from happening again,” Dr Swaminathan said.
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