The federal government has slapped a punitive 10-year ban on China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology, barring it from getting any money through the Health and Human Services Department.
Wuhan has been at the center of speculation about the origins of the coronavirus and was found to have performed risky research using U.S. taxpayer money.
He said U.S. officials knew about the risky research before the COVID-19 outbreak but didn’t take the right steps.One theory is that the virus emerged from natural exposure to an animal. The other major explanation centers on the lab, which was conducting research on coronaviruses using U.S. money.
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