Seven coronavirus cases have been detected in Wuhan, the first for more than a yearA report by a group of Republican congressmen has pinned the blame for the coronavirus pandemic on a leak from a laboratory in Wuhan, China, several months before the country first reported it. The members of the House of Representatives released details of an inquiry into the origins of coronavirus yesterday, concluding that it escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology at some point before September 12, 2019. SponsoredDescribing the leak as the “greatest cover-up of all time”, the report claimed they had found that “a preponderance of the evidence proves that all roads lead to the Wuhan lab”. “It is our belief the virus leaked sometime in late August or early September 2019,” Michael McCaul, the top Republican on the House foreign affairs committee,

Source: The Times August 02, 2021 23:48 UTC