China News Service, June 29. Recently, Australian virologist Danielle Anderson, who has conducted research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, China, pointed out in an interview with Bloomberg that the BSL-4 laboratory of Wuhan Institute of Virology is far better than some The media's descriptions are more formal. What the media said "is not true at all." She believes that the new crown virus has nothing to do with the institute and probably comes from nature.

　　US media reported that in the second half of 2019, Anderson was working in the BSL-4 (Safety Level 4) laboratory of the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

As an expert on bat-borne viruses, she is the only foreign scientist who has ever conducted research in the laboratory.

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　　During his tenure at Duke-National University of Singapore School of Medicine in 2016, Anderson began to cooperate with the Wuhan Institute of Virology. In 2019, he went to the Institute for research work until November that year.

This allows her to provide an insider's perspective.

　　Anderson pointed out that the functions and activities of the BSL-4 laboratory of Wuhan Institute of Virology are more formal than those described by some media.

The laboratory has strict regulations and requirements.

To ensure that the pathogen being studied is under control, researchers need to receive up to 45 hours of training before they can be allowed to work alone in the laboratory.

In addition, the institute also has a notification procedure to notify the occurrence of symptoms corresponding to pathogens in high-risk protection laboratories.

　　But Anderson said that half-true facts and distorted information (reported by the media) obscure what the laboratory is doing.

She said: "This is a routine laboratory, just like any other high-protection laboratory works in the same way."

　　US media said that Anderson was shocked by the description of the laboratory by some media outside of China and the subsequent attacks on scientists.

In response to media distorted reports, she believes that "what people are saying is not the truth."

　　Some western media reported that three researchers from the Wuhan laboratory had been hospitalized with flu-like symptoms in November 2019, but Anderson said that as of the end of 2019, none of the people in the Wuhan Virus Institute she knew had ever been sick. She herself, who has been in contact with many scientific researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, has never been ill.

She also said, “Before the vaccination, I was tested for the new coronavirus in Singapore and it showed that I had never been infected.”

　　In addition, as a scientist who has worked with some well-known virologists for many years, Anderson believes that although the pathogen may escape from the laboratory, she still believes that it is likely to come from nature.

　　She believes that since it took nearly a decade for researchers to determine the source of the SARS pathogen in nature, it is not surprising that the natural origin of the new coronavirus has not yet been determined.