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World Health Organization's WHO corona origin investigation team visited the Wuhan Virus Research Institute, which is suspected of being the source of Corona 19.
China insisted that the United States should also be investigated.
Beijing correspondent Song Wook reports.
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vehicle carrying the WHO's Corona 19 Origin Investigation Team from the World Health Organization (WHO) arrives at the Wuhan Virus Research Institute under strict security.
[Peter Darthzak/WHO Investigation Team: We look forward to meeting all the key personnel at the research center and asking all necessary questions.]
Wuhan Virus Research Institute, which has the only biosafety level 4 laboratory in China, is the angry fish market where the first outbreak of Corona 19 And about 12 km away.
As it was confirmed that the Wuhan Research Center studied bats, which are believed to be the natural host of Corona 19, there have been suspicions that it is the origin of the virus.
The former Trump administration in the United States claimed there was evidence of the leak, but the institute also demanded an apology from the United States, saying there was no leak.
The WHO research team, who visited the lab for three and a half hours, also interviewed researcher Jeong-ri Su.
Researcher Shi, a bat-related virus expert and dubbed'bat woman', has been a key figure in the controversy over the leak.
The Chinese government, which stressed that it is actively cooperating with the WHO investigation, said it also needed an investigation into the United States.
[Wang Won-bin/Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China: (December 2019) Corona 19 antibodies were found in blood samples from some US blood donors, which means that Corona 19 already appeared in the United States at the time.]
Denying the origin of Corona 19 Wuhan
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China is expected to further assert that the WHO should investigate other countries and regions as well.
(Video coverage: Choi Deok-hyun, Video editing: Kim Ho-jin)