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China rebuffs WHO’s terms for further COVID-19 origins study

By Thomas A. Smith

BEIJING (AP) China cannot accept the World Health Organization s plan for the second phase of a study into the origins of COVID-19, a senior Chinese health official said Thursday.

Zeng Yixin, the vice minister of the National Health Commission, said he was rather taken aback that the plan includes further investigation of the theory that the virus might have leaked from a Chinese lab.

He dismissed the lab leak idea as a rumor that runs counter to common sense and science.

via apnews.com

Deep sigh of relief from all those virologists who want there to be more gain of function research, and those who took part in cooking up the coronavirus, probably.