Wuhan Institute of Virology, said in an interview published in Science magazine that she and her colleagues encountered the virus in December last year, when reports of the disease first emerged in the city.
She said the lab hadn’t seen or studied the virus before that.“U.S. President Trump’s claim that SARS-CoV-2 was leaked from our institute totally contradicts the facts," Shi said in the article published July 24. “It jeopardizes and affects our academic work and personal life.
He owes us an apology."The question of the coronavirus’s origin has become an increasingly politicized issue as relations between the U.S.