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Regarding the controversy over the origin of Corona 19, the US government is putting weight on the origin of the Wuhan Institute in China. The White House also demanded that the truth be investigated.
This is Jung Joon-hyung.
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Andy Slavitt, senior advisor of the White House's Corona 19 Response Team in the United States, said the truth about the origins of Corona 19 should be clarified.
"The World Health Organization, WHO and China need to do more to provide a clear answer regarding the origins of COVID-19."
Anthony Pouch, head of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases, also raised the need for further investigation.
[Anthony Pouch/Director of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases in the United States: I do not know 100% about the origin of Corona 19. The investigation into the origins should continue to move to the next step.]
Previously, the Wall Street Journal cited a nonpublic information report from the US government, raised suspicion that the Wuhan Institute in China was the source of the virus, and called for the facts to be investigated. The voices of the people are following one after another.
In a statement, former President Trump said, "Everyone agrees that he was right to point to Wuhan, China as the source of Corona 19 from an early age."
When former President Trump was confronted by the failure to respond to Corona 19 last year, he called the coronavirus ``Wuhan virus'' and raised a claim of responsibility in China.
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also said, "I am confident that the coronavirus came out at the Wuhan Institute," and argued that "if the truth is not disclosed, a similar pandemic could occur again."
The WHO's Corona 19 investigation team said in a report released last March after completing a field investigation in Wuhan, China, "The hypothesis that Corona 19 leaked from the laboratory is extremely unlikely to be true."