China’s lack of transparency on virus fuelling rumours – US expert

Inside the P4 laboratory in Wuhan, the Chinese biosafety laboratory accused by senior US officials of being at the origin of the coronavirus pandemic. Picture taken in 2017 . AFP/File/Johannes EISELE

But there is also widespread speculation that the virus, called SARS-CoV-2, was manufactured as a bioweapon or escaped from a Chinese laboratory working on the related SARS virus. The United States and Australia have called for an international investigation, but China has refused, and is yet to respond to a WHO request for an invitation to help probe the virus origin.Brilliant, who served as a consultant on the frighteningly realistic 2011 pandemic horror film “Contagion”, dismissed the assertion by some that the virus may have been artificially manufactured.

The US suspicions focus in particular on the possibility that the virus escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China, but Brilliant stressed that if that were the case, it should be seen as an accident.

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