China News Service, July 22. Yuan Zhiming, director of the Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and researcher of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, pointed out on the 22nd that as a laboratory with the highest level of biosafety and protection, the Wuhan P4 laboratory has been officially put into operation in 2018 , There has not been any pathogen leakage and personnel infection accidents.
The State Council Information Office held a press conference on the 22nd to introduce the traceability of the new crown virus.
Yuan Zhiming said at the meeting that the new coronavirus is of natural origin, which has become a general consensus in the academic community.
On July 5, 2021, 24 internationally renowned experts once again published a paper in The Lancet, stating that there is currently no scientific evidence to support the theory that the new coronavirus leaked from the Chinese laboratory.
On July 7, 2021, these scientists from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia published a preprinted article on the European scientific data sharing platform Zenodo, stating that “there is no evidence that the new crown virus came from the Wuhan laboratory”; “there is no evidence that Any early cases are linked to the Wuhan Institute of Virology"; "There is no evidence that the Wuhan Institute of Virology owned or studied the ancestors of the new coronavirus before the pandemic."
"Just a few days ago, 22 Chinese and foreign scientists jointly published papers in "Science in China", using classic evolutionary theory methods, and powerfully demonstrated why the new coronavirus can only come from nature and cannot be manufactured by humans. Scientific evidence refutes the conspiracy theory of'lab leak'." Yuan Zhiming said.
Yuan Zhiming said that as a laboratory with the highest level of biosafety and protection, Wuhan P4 Laboratory has not had any pathogen leakage or personnel infection accidents since it was officially put into operation in 2018.
Wuhan P4 laboratory is designed, constructed and operated in accordance with international requirements and national standards. It not only has stable and reliable biosafety protection facilities, but also established a complete biosafety management system and a team of professional support, management and maintenance personnel. Team.
"I can say with certainty that the hardware facilities, management level, staff and working methods of the Wuhan P4 laboratory are the same as other P4 laboratories currently operating in the world." Yuan Zhiming said that some media have reported that "Wuhan All three researchers of the virus study visited the hospital in November 2019, and their symptoms were the same as those of the new coronavirus." This is completely out of nothing.
"If we want to find out the truth of this fact, it is actually very simple. It only needs these media reporters to tell us the names of these three people, and the truth will be revealed. In fact, we made this proposal very early, but we have not received it until now. Any response."
Yuan Zhiming emphasized that before December 30, 2019, Wuhan Institute of Virology had not contacted, stored or studied the new coronavirus.
The Wuhan Institute of Virology has never designed, manufactured, or leaked the new coronavirus.
So far, the employees and graduate students of Wuhan Institute of Virology have maintained "zero infection" of the new crown virus.
Yuan Zhiming pointed out that in the face of the sudden outbreak of new coronary pneumonia, Wuhan Institute of Virology has used the platform, technology and talents accumulated over the years to quickly determine that it is a new type of coronavirus, isolate the virus strain, determine the entire genome sequence, and The whole genome sequence was submitted to the United Nations World Health Organization on January 12, 2020.
These important research results have provided the basis for global pathogen detection, antiviral drug screening and vaccine research, and have also bought time for the global fight against the epidemic.
After the new coronavirus strain was isolated and obtained, the organization carried out antiviral drug screening, vaccine research and the establishment of animal models, which provided effective support for scientific and technological anti-epidemic.
He said that because of its location in Wuhan and its work in fighting the epidemic, the Wuhan Institute of Virology has received global attention and has been involved in various rumors.
These rumors have put tremendous pressure on the research personnel of the Institute of Virology, interfered with some normal scientific research work, and have a negative impact on the normal academic exchanges and scientific and technological cooperation of the international academic community.
Yuan Zhiming emphasized that in the face of the current COVID-19 pandemic, it is impossible for any country to take care of itself. Only global cooperation and coordinated actions can effectively curb the spread of the virus and bring people around the world back to prosperity. Harmonious life.
"Wuhan Institute of Virology will uphold our open and transparent attitude, and is willing to work with scientists to continue to make our contributions to the fight against the new crown pneumonia epidemic."