U.S. government gave $3.7million to Wuhan lab at center of coronavirus leak scrutiny that was experimenting on bats from the caves where the disease is believed to have originated
Daily Mail
April 12, 2020
The US National Institutes of Health, a government agency, awarded a $3.7million research grant to the Wuhan Institute of Virology to study coronavirus transmission.
The lab is the center of several conspiracy theories that suggest it is the original source of the coronavirus outbreak.
Sequencing of the COVID-19 genome has traced it back to bats found in Yunnan caves but it was first thought to have transferred to humans at an animal market in Wuhan.
The revelation that the Wuhan Institute was experimenting on bats from the area already known to be the source of COVID-19 - and doing so with American money - has sparked further fears that the lab, and not the market, is the original outbreak source.
The lab is located just 20 miles from the market.
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